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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24855541, member: 26430&quot;]It is -- or was -- uncertain, but maybe someone who knows Valerian/Gallienus coinage well can say whether opinion has coalesced around either of those two mints: Samosata in Commagene, which was inland a bit from Antioch, in Syria, but not too far.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think RIC V was uncertain, simply calling it a mint in &quot;Asia,&quot; presumably Antioch or Samosata. (There have been a couple past posts on the topic if you search &quot;Samosata.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, here&#039;s my most newest Valerian...</p><p>It has a tiny creepy hooded Telesphorus standing between Asclepius and Hygeia (his proud papa and sister).</p><p>Little weirdo, that guy!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1593290[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Phrygia, Cotiaeum. Valerian AE</b> (24mm, 7.75g, 2h)</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: ΑΥΤ Κ Π ΛΙΚ ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟΝ. Radiate, draped, cuirassed bust from rear.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: ΕΠΙ Π ΑΙΛ Δ<u>ΗΜ</u>ΗΤΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΙΠΠ(Ι)(Κ) / ΑΡ/Χ / ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ. Asclepius &amp; Hygeia, with Telesphorus between.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: For type, see: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/63217" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/63217" rel="nofollow">RPC X (Temp) 63217</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: CNG EA 548 (18 Oct 2023) lot 1115 (part of), ex M. Slavin coll., ex H.C. Lindgren (1914-2005) coll. (unpublished) w/ his envelope.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>From Phrygia, Cotiaeum -- which makes this relatively late, as Provincials go. Outside Alexandria (where they kept up through Diocletian&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrarchy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrarchy" rel="nofollow">Tetrarchy</a> &amp; the usurper Domitius), the Provincial Coinage started dying out between about the reigns of Gallienus and Tacitus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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