Gallienus wants YOU to help build the CT Zoo

With the emperors thread teetering to a close and me having just won a wonderful lot, from Tauler & Fau, of Gallienus zoo/beast coins, I thought it would be fun to see how close we can get to filling Gallienus Zoo!

As you all probably know, Gallienus zoo coins, coins minted under the man with his and his wife's image on the obverse and animals and mythical creatures on the reverse, are one of the most popular (and affordable) collecting nitches in the hobby!


Here's how it will work: We have the list of critters below, supplied by the wonderful, CT Rookie of the year, @DonnaML (whom has some wonderful creatures of her own that I hope will be shared!), from @Roman Collector's thread on the numbered officianae https://www.cointalk.com/threads/numbered-officinae-on-the-rome-mint-issues-of-gallienus.358895/

Post as many as you would like, but if you have one that hasn't been shown please highlight or bold the type so we can keep track and mark it off the list.

Centaur walking left holding globe
Centaur walking right with bow and arrow
Centaur galloping right, with bow and arrow held up to sky
Gryphon walking left
Gryphon walking right
Gryphon seated left
Antelope left
Antelope right
Doe left, head turned back to right
Doe right, head turned back to left
Stag left
Stag right
Gazelle left
Gazelle right
Lion left
Boar right
Goat left
Goat right
Panther left
Panther right, "rampant" (head facing upwards)
[No mention of tigress, but he does give examples of a striped big cat left, which he identifies as a "lioness"]
Criocampus [mythical beast with head and forelimbs of ram, and body and rear of fish] swimming right
Hippocamp [head and forelimbs of horse, body and rear of fish] swimming left
Hippocamp swimming right
Capricorn [head and forelimbs of goat, body and rear of fish] swimming right
Pegasus left, rearing up on hind legs
Pegasus right, rearing up on hind legs
Bull standing left
Bull standing right
Antelope left [different officina from earlier antelope]
Antelope right [ " " " ]

I will get the ball rolling with a real dog that I got from that lot of 17 coins for 30 bucks (before shipping) that is the second hardest of the series to come by (something like less than half of a percent are of the boar)!

Gallienus,
A.D. 253-268.
Æ Double Denarius. Rome, A.D. 267/8. Radiate head of Gallienus right. Rv. HERCVLI CONS AVG, Calydonian boar standing right; E. 4.2 gr, 22mm, RIC 202. Göbl 729b. RSC 317. The second toughest of Gallienus' CONS AVG series to acquire.

Ex: Tauler & Fau


I wonder how many types we can mark off the list? DO we combined have all of them???

 

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This was supposed to be together with my response; see my next post. How they got separated into two posts, I have no idea!

 

Thanks for the compliment, @Ryro! My suspicion is that we won't come close to completing the list, which has 31 different types on it including the tigress. I compiled the list from the Wolkow book; see my note below. (Now, if you were asking about the Philip I and family zoo, it would be a different story, although it might be more difficult if we had to supply all the different animals as sestertii as well as antoniniani.)

In any event, I have only three: the tigress left, the doe right looking back to the left, and the gazelle right. I have a centaur walking left with globe on my watch list on VCoins, but haven't pushed the button yet. The problem is that it's so hard to find these in nice condition, even the common ones.

Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, 267-268 AD, Rome Mint (2nd Officina). Obv. Radiate head right, GALLIENVS AVG /Rev. Tigress walking left, LIBERO P • CONS AVG; B in exergue. RIC V-1 230, RSC IV 586, Wolkow 19a2, Göbl MIR [Moneta Imperii Romani] Band 36, No. 713(B), Sear RCV III 10281 [Tigress variety of these catalogue numbers; see http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber Pater ]. 19 mm, 2.83 g., 6 h.





Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, 267-268 AD, Rome Mint (5th Officina). Obv. Radiate head right, GALLIENVS AVG /Rev. Doe walking right, head turned back looking left, DIANAE CONS AVG; Є [Epsilon = 5th Officina] in exergue. RIC V-1 177, RSC IV 154, Wolkow 10a5, Göbl MIR [Moneta Imperii Romani] Band 36, No. 728(b); cf. Sear RCV III 10199 (same reverse & obverse portrait; different obverse legend). 21 mm., 2.72 g., 6 h.



Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, 267-268 AD, Rome Mint (11th Officina). Obv. Radiate head right, GALLIENVS AVG /Rev. Gazelle* walking right, DIANAE CONS AVG; XI in exergue. RIC V-1181, RSC IV 157, Wolkow 14a11, Göbl MIR [Moneta Imperii Romani] Band 36, No. 747(b), Cunetio 1401, Sear RCV III 10201. 21 mm., 3.24 g., 6 h.



* See Wolkow [Cédric Wolkow, Catalogue des monnaies romaines - Gallien - L'émission dite "Du Bestiaire" - atelier de Rome (BNumis, édition 2019)] p. 64; http://www.fredericweber.com/GALLIEN/emission_du_bestiaire/page2.htm; Jim Phelps, The Coins of Gallienus ' "Zoo" Collection (http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gallienus Zoo).

 

The zoo series is a little heavy in the hooved beasts, so I'll get the ball rolling with stags -- walking left and walking right!

DIANAE CONS AVG

 

Unfortunately, I can't see the officina numbers on some of these, so it's difficult to tell whether the second and fourth ones are supposed to be antelopes or gazelles (although I suspect that # 2 is an antelope and # 4 is a gazelle). The first one is a panther, and the third is probably a stag.

 

Recently picked this one up from Savoca

 

Nice idea for a thread, here are mine


Wolkow # 2a7



Wolkow # 4aa4


Wolkow # 7a3


Wolkow # 10a5


Wolkow # 13a12


Wolkow # 17a6


Wolkow # 18a6

Q

 

Wolkow # 19a2



Wolkow # 21a8



Wolkow # 23a9


Wolkow # 26a1


Wolkow # 29aa4

Q

 

Obv:– GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust right
Rev:– SOLI CONS AVG, Bull right, XI in exergue
Minted in Rome
Reference:– RIC 285. RSC 162



Obv:- GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
Rev:- DIANAE CONS AVG, gazelle walking left.
Minted in Rome. //XII
Refence:- RIC 181


Obv:– GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate bust right
Rev:– IOVI CONS AVG, Goat walking right
Minted in Rome (//S) . A.D. 257-259
Reference:– RIC 207

 

Here's a SOLI CONS AVG type.

Gallienus, AE antoninianus, Rome mint. Sole reign.

Obverse: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right

Reverse: SOLI CONS AVG, Pegasus springing right. Officina letter A offset to right of exergue.

Reference: Goebl 712; RIC V-1, Rome 283 var (mintmark A); Sear 10362.

 

Stag left

Goat right
Hippocamp right Panther left

Gryphon left Centaur left

and one barbarous antelope left?


Do you want Gallienus animals not from the series attaching them to a god?

 

Wonderful assortment Doug.
If you have some examples, I'd love to see them. The more the merrier!
This zoo is filling up quick
I don't think I've seen a left (thanks Donna!facing doe looking over its shoulder yet:

 

I suspect you mean left!

 

I have number 2 listed as a goat and number 4 listed as stag

 

Number 2 could be a goat, but I'm pretty sure that number 4 is not a stag, or it would have branched antlers like your number 3. It looks more like my gazelle.

 

... maybe

Fixed. Thanks for letting me know

 

Gazelle it is then. I will change my catalog. Thank you.

 

I can't add anything not already shown but will pop these into the thread anyway .

Criocamp

GALLIENUS
struck 267-268 CE, Rome mint, 8th officina, 10th issue
AE antoninianus; 3.40 gm, 20.7 mm
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG; radiate head right
Rev: MERCVRIO CONS AVG; criocamp (sea ram) right; H below
Ref: MIR 36, 741b; RIC V (sole reign) 242; Wolkow 21a8 (R); Cunetio 1389

Tigress

Gallienus, sole reign
CE 260-268
Antoninianus, Rome mint
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
Rev: LIBERO P CONS AVG, striped tigress standing left; B in exergue
Ref: RIC V 230 (Sole reign)

 

For anyone who doesn't have Wolkow's book (and I would guess that not too many people in the USA or UK have it), this is what the Wolkow numbers in @Cucumbor's two posts signify -- although of course most are self-evident:

Wolkow # 2a7 Centaur right with bow and arrow, Officina 7, Apollo

Wolkow # 4aa4 Gryphon left with IMP GALLIENVS AVG obv. legend, Officina 4, Apollo

Wolkow # 7a3 Antelope left, Officina 3, Diana

Wolkow # 10a5 Doe right with head turned back, Officina 5, Diana

Wolkow # 13a12 Gazelle left, Officina 12, Diana

Wolkow # 17a6 Goat left, Officina 6, Jove

Wolkow # 18a6 Goat right, Officina 6, Jove

Wolkow # 19a2 Panther left, Officina 2, Liber

Wolkow # 21a8 Criocamp right, Officina 8, Mercury

Wolkow # 23a9 Hippocamp right, Officina 9, Neptune

Wolkow # 26a1 Pegasus right, Officina 1, Sol

Wolkow # 29aa4 Antelope left, Obv. legend COR SALONINA AVG, Officina 4, Juno