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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3086261, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s an interesting coin, [USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER] . I have one too and I suspect the letters on ours were engraved by the same celator because they both use the same weird curved Γ in the left field on the reverse. Although I don&#039;t think they are obverse die-matches, the shape of the S in GALLIENVS and the V in AVG are very distinctive and the portraits are so similar they have to have come from the same hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]778038[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallienus, AD 253-268.</p><p>Roman billon antoninianus, 2.57 g, 19.2 mm, 8 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 260-268.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS AVG, Radiate Sol standing left, raising right hand and holding globe raised in left; Γ in left field.</p><p>Refs: RIC 160; Göbl 577a; Cohen 38 var.; RCV --.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some, but not all, examples of this issue from this officina of the Rome mint have the same curved gamma in the left field, such as this one from <a href="http://gallienus.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallienus.net/" rel="nofollow">Gallienus.net</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]778043[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and <a href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/images/erf_ri3196.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/images/erf_ri3196.jpg" rel="nofollow">this one</a> from <a href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" rel="nofollow">Coins of Gallienus and Family</a><font size="4">:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]778041[/ATTACH] </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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