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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2879618, member: 75937"]I think it'll be a fun collecting focus over the next couple of years--certainly more affordable than his legionary series antoniniani, that's for sure. He's got so many coins that one simply can't collect "Gallienus and Salonina" (I probably have about 50 coins between them, but completely unfocused). It'll be a nice, focused collection. Jim Phelps has a nice <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gallienus%20Zoo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gallienus%20Zoo" rel="nofollow">paper on them at NumisWiki</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a Centaur:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]689891[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallienus, AD 253-268</p><p>Roman AE Antoninianus; 19 mm, 2.7 g</p><p>Rome, AD 267-268</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right</p><p>Rev: APOLLINI CONS AVG, Centaur walking left, holding globe and trophy*; H(?) in exergue</p><p>Refs: RIC 164; Cohen 73; RCV 10178</p><p><br /></p><p>*RIC calls this object a trophy; Sear calls it a rudder; Cohen calls it arrows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 2879618, member: 75937"]I think it'll be a fun collecting focus over the next couple of years--certainly more affordable than his legionary series antoniniani, that's for sure. He's got so many coins that one simply can't collect "Gallienus and Salonina" (I probably have about 50 coins between them, but completely unfocused). It'll be a nice, focused collection. Jim Phelps has a nice [URL='https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gallienus%20Zoo']paper on them at NumisWiki[/URL]. Here's a Centaur: [ATTACH=full]689891[/ATTACH] Gallienus, AD 253-268 Roman AE Antoninianus; 19 mm, 2.7 g Rome, AD 267-268 Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev: APOLLINI CONS AVG, Centaur walking left, holding globe and trophy*; H(?) in exergue Refs: RIC 164; Cohen 73; RCV 10178 *RIC calls this object a trophy; Sear calls it a rudder; Cohen calls it arrows.[/QUOTE]
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