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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1019061, member: 19463&quot;]Late Caracalla are often great portraits.&nbsp; I&#039;ll offer one with Pluto and Cerberus for show and tell.&nbsp; IMHO some of the wilder portraits are slightly earlier when the obverse legend ended in BRIT.&nbsp; Some of those portrait denarii look like he was the kind of guy who would kill his brother.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus has the biggest range of coins of any emperor.&nbsp; He started with Valerian issuing billon coins that were at least silver looking and went through some to the worst looking billon before reaching copper looking coins (once silvered).&nbsp; Some of these were nicely made and round while others were scrappy looking.&nbsp; Some of his portraits are good art and others are very bland.&nbsp; Given coins of the same grade, I believe there is a huge span in appropriate pricing for Gallienus.&nbsp; Nice art, nice strike on a round flan and good metal (not porous or crumbling) coins of interesting types should be worth ten times the same letter grade (VF, etc.) in the boring, low end, poorly made garbage.&nbsp; If you are a specialist in Gallienus, you need examples of all the versions but if you only need one, perhaps you will want a decent looking one (like the one you show).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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