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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8203435, member: 110350&quot;]Here&#039;s mine; it&#039;s certainly understandable that someone could misread the officina number:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, Rome Mint, 9th Officina (10th emission - Göbl), 267-268 AD. Obv. Radiate cuirassed bust right, GALLIENVS AVG / Rev. Hippocamp swimming right, NEP-TVNO CONS AVG; in exergue, N [= Nu, for 9th Officina). RIC V-1 245, RSC IV 668 [cuirassed] (ill.), Wolkow 23i9, Bust Type B3, Ribbons Type 3 [Cédric Wolkow, <i>Catalogue des monnaies romaines - Gallien - L&#039;émission dite &quot;Du Bestiaire&quot; - atelier de Rome</i> (BNumis, édition 2019). at p. 87], Göbl MIR [<i>Moneta Imperii Romani</i>] Band 36, No. 743b, Sear RCV III 10292. 19 mm., 2.63 g. <i>Purchased from Akropolis Ancient Coins, May 2021.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lightened-gallienus-ant-hippocamp-jpg-jpg.1313683/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the list I posted back in June 2020, at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gallienus-wants-you-to-help-build-the-ct-zoo.361207/page-2#post-4554343" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gallienus-wants-you-to-help-build-the-ct-zoo.361207/page-2#post-4554343">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gallienus-wants-you-to-help-build-the-ct-zoo.361207/page-2#post-4554343</a>, of the 32 different main types in the Gallienus Zoo Series that I&#039;ve counted in several sources, with the corresponding deity and Officina for each type:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lioness walking left [Apollo, Officina 2]</p><p>Centaur walking left holding globe [Apollo, Officinas 4, 7, &amp; 8]</p><p>Centaur walking right with bow and arrow [Apollo, Officinas 7 &amp; 8]</p><p>Centaur galloping right, with bow and arrow held up to sky [Apollo, Officina 7]</p><p>Gryphon walking left [Apollo, Officinas 4 &amp; 8]</p><p>Gryphon walking right [Apollo, Officina 4]</p><p>Gryphon seated left [Apollo, Officina 4]</p><p>Antelope left [Diana, Officinas 3 &amp; 4]</p><p>Antelope right [Diana, Officina 3]</p><p>Doe left, head turned back to right [Diana, Officina 5]</p><p>Doe right, head turned back to left [Diana, Officina 5]</p><p>Stag left [Diana, Officina 10]</p><p>Stag right [Diana, Officina 10]</p><p>Gazelle left [Diana, Officinas 11 &amp; 12]</p><p>Gazelle right [Diana, Officinas 11 &amp; 12]</p><p>Lion left [Hercules, Officina 1]</p><p>Boar right [Hercules, Officina 5]</p><p>Goat left [Jove, Officina 6]</p><p>Goat right [Jove, Officinas 4 &amp; 6]</p><p>Panther left [Liber Pater, Officina 2]</p><p>Panther right, &quot;rampant&quot; (head facing upwards) [Liber, Officina 2]</p><p>[Tigress left] [Liber Pater, Officina 2]</p><p>Criocampus [mythical beast with head and forelimbs of ram, and body and rear of fish] swimming right [Mercury, Officina 8]</p><p><b>Hippocamp [head and forelimbs of horse, body and rear of fish] swimming left [Neptune, Officina 9]</b></p><p><b>Hippocamp swimming right [Neptune, Officina 9]</b></p><p>Capricorn [head and forelimbs of goat, body and rear of fish] swimming right [Neptune, Officina 6]</p><p>Pegasus left, rearing up on hind legs [Sol, Officina 1]</p><p>Pegasus right, rearing up on hind legs [Sol, Officina 1]</p><p>Bull standing left [Sol, Officina 11]</p><p>Bull standing right [Sol, Officina 11]</p><p>Antelope left [Salonina obverse, Juno, Officina 4]</p><p>Antelope right [Salonina obverse, Juno, Officina 4]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the list of officinae from p. 33 of the Wolkow book (see the full citation above), which was published in 2019 and is now essential to any discussion of the Zoo Series. I haven&#039;t watched the Berk video yet, but if it doesn&#039;t mention Wolkow, that&#039;s a serious omission. (Before I bought my copy of Wolkow -- as I recall, from cgb.fr -- I relied heavily on the Jim Phelps article on Forvm, which is also still very helpful.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1437862[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is Wolkow&#039;s listing, at pp. 86-87, of the two types (both hippocamps) from the 9th (N) Officina:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1437863[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, one can see how easily the &quot;N&quot; can be misread.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: I just watched the section of the video (running from approximately the 30 minute mark until 42 minutes) on Gallienus and his Zoo Series. I have to point out that the podcasters&#039; reliance on Phelps for the statement that there are hippocamps with a Mercury legend is misplaced: all the hippocamps are under Neptune. The only type with Mercury is the criocamp or criocampus, i.e., the head of a ram combined with the body and tail of a fish.* In the narration, Berk confuses the two. (Anyone can misspeak, so I certainly don&#039;t hold it against him. He also names the two sons of Septimius Severus as Caracalla and Elagabalus -- rather than Geta -- although I&#039;m sure he knows better.)</p><p><br /></p><p>* I would love an example of the criocamp(us), and I know there are some people here who have it. But I don&#039;t remember ever seeing one for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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