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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7365177, member: 84905&quot;]I don&#039;t claim to know better but simply assumed that it must have been more than one mint simply based on different styles. At the time of Postumus and Victorinus, coins were produced in Cologne and Lyon, so why not also during the time of Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think at least two very distinct groups can be distinguished, which are both numerous:</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that this coin exemplifies the style from Colonia Agrippina (Köln - Germany)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283510[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this one I thought is a typical style from Lugdunum (Lyon - France), but that may be an attribution that is no longer accepted.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283513[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But of course there are no mint marks and style can be deceptive. Perhaps different die sinkers were at work in Cologne.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the type at the beginning of the thread I believe I can distinguish three different styles:</p><p>Style 1 (which I believe to be from Cologne (the seller attributed it to Trier)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283517[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Style 2 (which I (and indeed the seller of this coin) attribute to Lyon - perhaps wrongly)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283518[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Style 3 (a particularly unusual style, which I have not seen before, but which seems to best matched with coins from the mint of Rome or Viminacium)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283519[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, I cannot be sure. Maybe at least two very distinct styles were produced simultaneously by the mint of Cologne. For both distinct styles numerous examples exist. They are certainly the product of different die sinkers, perhaps&nbsp; different workshops, but I continue to believe different mints. The third style, to me looks exceptional. I cannot find other comparable coins of similar style, which is probably why Gorny&amp;Mosch thought the coin was from Antioch. In my view it is a coin from Rome or perhaps Viminacium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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