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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 8352969, member: 99554&quot;]In fact it’s Otto Vœtter’s fault. in 1901, he attributed Gallienus’s Gallic coinage to the mint of Lyon and found some stylistic link with the first coins in Postumus’s name… About the location of the two mints under the Gallic rulers, we have only two absolute truths: Postumus has coins with the legend COL CL AGRIP COS IIII and C C A A COS IIII, so there was a mint at Cologne. 2)&nbsp; In 2005, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a monetary workshop in the city of Trier: in addition to 300 brand new Tetricus coins ( some of them were attributed to Cologne by Elmer !) they have found a piece of a bronze ingot, many copper bars and molds. So it’s sure there was a mint there during the reign of the Tetrici. So what exactly happened between 260 AD-274 is unknown, but as you said there are new hypothesis every 30 years…</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are coins from the three mints under Postumus: </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Milan</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1482316[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Trier</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1482317[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Cologne</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1482319[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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