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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2904971, member: 84744"]Here are a couple Gallienus ants I will be keeping: [ATTACH=full]700551[/ATTACH] The panther is presumably from Rome, but could also be Siscia(?)  Can't tell whether the exergue had anything in it or not. The other one is not a beauty, but it is part of the historically interesting series celebrating victory over the Germans (VICTORIA GM on this one), and I didn't have one. Here are my (mostly plagiarized) notes on the panther: "The "zoo" series was struck late in the reign of Gallienus, invoking the help of various deities to preserve the emperor (CONS AVG). This coin asks for the help of Liber Pater, who was was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom; he was also the patron deity of Rome's plebeians. His festival of Liberalia (March 17) became associated with free speech and the rights attached to coming of age. His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Romanised forms of the Greek Dionysus/Bacchus, whose mythology he came to share.. One myth tells of how Liber (or Bacchus/Dionysus) was captured by pirates who mistakenly thought he was the son of a rich king and intended to ransom him. He took the form of a panther, and the pirates leapt overboard and were turned into dolphins."[/QUOTE]