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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7638286, member: 110350&quot;]Since this is the most comprehensive Gallienus &quot;Zoo Series&quot; thread we&#039;ve had since I joined Coin Talk, I thought I&#039;d post my newest inhabitant for the Zoo here -- the first one I&#039;ve acquired since last October. I bought it recently from our own [USER=99412]@PeteB[/USER] through Akropolis Ancient Coins, and it shows a hippocamp, i.e., a mythical beast with the head, neck, and forelimbs of a horse, and the body and tail of a fish. It&#039;s my first hippocamp on any kind of coin, and I think it&#039;s one of the best-looking ones I&#039;ve ever seen!</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>[ATTACH=full]1313683[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><br /></p><p>By any chance are those supposed to be fish scales on the hippocamp&#039;s body? And what are those two diagonal lines extending beneath its body, behind the forelegs? They don&#039;t look like scratches to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is actually a less-common variety of the Gallienus hippocamp than the one usually seen, which depicts Gallienus&#039;s radiate head without a cuirass, and shows the ribbons touching his neck. </p><p><br /></p><p>On page 2 of this thread, 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>, I listed the 32 different main types in the Gallienus Zoo Series that I counted in several sources. I now have a grand total of 8: hippocamp right, centaur left, gryphon left, antelope left, doe right with head turned back, gazelle right, tigress left, Pegasus right. All are posted in this thread. I think most of us know how difficult it is to find Gallienus antoniniani of any type in decent condition, so that explains, I think, the relatively low number. </p><p><br /></p><p>(Plus, I have two Gallienus animal reverses that are <u>not</u> part of his &quot;Zoo Series&quot;: a bull advancing right from his legionary series [the emblem of the Leg. VIII Augusta], minted in Mediolanum, and a lion walking left minted in Antioch that&#039;s not part of a series. See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-gallienus-animal-reverses-that-are-not-part-of-his-zoo-series.368770/#post-4966036" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-gallienus-animal-reverses-that-are-not-part-of-his-zoo-series.368770/#post-4966036">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-gallienus-animal-reverses-that-are-not-part-of-his-zoo-series.368770/#post-4966036</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wish, please post any coins from Gallienus&#039;s Zoo Series that you&#039;ve acquired since this thread was last active in October 2020, or any coins from the series that you may already have had at the time, but didn&#039;t post in this thread. Or, any hippocamps even if they&#039;re not part of the Gallienus Zoo Series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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