Gallienus - Rare coins of a common Emperor

Yes but we have only one A so it would be LAETITI AVG N. I still see that as the best answer and anything goes with barbarous coins.

 

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Here are a couple of Gallienus from the Cologne mint (according to Göbl). I'm not sure if they deserve the appellation "rare," but they are encountered far less frequently in trade than his zoo, Pax, and Laetitia types.


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 3.61 g, 21.1 mm, 12 h.
Cologne, AD 257-258.
Obv: GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: VIRTVS AVGG, Gallienus in military attire standing right, holding spear and standard.
Refs: RIC 58F; Göbl 8821; Cohen 1309; RCV 10413; Hunter 58; ERIC II 1030.

And the DEO MARTI type:


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.39 g, 21.6 mm, 6 h.
Cologne, AD 257-258.
Obv: GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: DEO MARTI, Mars standing left in tetrastyle temple, holding shield and spear.
Refs: RIC 10F var. (joint reign); Göbl 889h; RSC 149a (Lugdunum); RCV --.

 

Could be a ligate attempt using one A for both the end of LAETITIA and AVG.

Had an Aurelian with RESTITVT*O*RBIS; where the O was evidently meant to attach to both words.

 

I no longer own this coin, but it has a very unusual portrait:

Mediolanum mint, sole reign (A.D. 260-268)
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG - Radiate, elmeted, cuirasses bust, left, holding spear and shield.
Rev: MARTI PACIFE - Mars, walking left, holding olive branch in right hand and spear in left.
No mint mark
(I no longer have the size and weight, but it was typical for an antoninianus.)

 

One of the more rare and interesting Gallienus coins in my collection is this hybrid with a reverse type proper to Salonina.


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.67 g, 18.9 mm, 1 h.
Rome, 5th series, AD 265-267.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.
Rev: FECVNDITAS AVG, Fecunditas standing left, extending hand to child and holding cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 184; Cunetio 1311; Cohen 179; Göbl-0579.
Notes: Only 9 such hybrids in the Cunetio hoard: 3 with a delta officina mark in the right field on the reverse (1309), one with a draped and cuirassed bust (1310), and five with a radiate head but no officina mark (1311).

 

That totally looks like Probus

 

Yeah, it does.

You know how sometimes images of the previous emperor will appear on the earliest coins of the following emperor? This is an extremely rare example of an image of a later emperor appearing in anticipation on the coin of an earlier emperor.



Just kidding.



Actually, no, I'm not kidding. This is just a flat-out, bald faced lie.