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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2073821, member: 19463&quot;]One of the &#039;interesting&#039; parts of Gallienus&#039; coinage is that it spans many years, 8 mints and crossed over the line between sort of silver coins and those now we can&#039;t even call silvered (whitened?).&nbsp; Average Antioch mint coins are better made than the exceptional Siscia but portrait style is another matter.&nbsp; It happens that the zoo coins fell at a time and place when trash was the expected quality.&nbsp; I don&#039;t find the zoo as much more interesting as most people who seem willing to pay a premium for trashy examples.&nbsp; I will have to agree that it is hard to accept the range of coins from the under 15 years as coming from one ruler.&nbsp; I wonder just how much direct influence Valerian&#039;s capture and Gallienus&#039; seniority had on the trashing of the coinage and why Antioch was able to strike round flans when the others had no interest in the subject.&nbsp; This would be a great place for someone to unearth a correspondence of a mint worker that might give us a clue what was going on in the mint system but the chance of this happening seems less than zero.&nbsp; If I were HBO looking for another toga drama, I might suggest the workers of the mint between Gallienus and Aurelian when things got so bad there was a revolt.&nbsp; We know a lot of the work was done by slaves who don&#039;t care but the masters were little better, it would seem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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