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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4409018, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks for posting this, along with the link to the list of Gallienus zoo coins and mintmarks.&nbsp; I had never seen such a list before, as opposed to the individual catalog entries in RCV.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only one I have, which I&#039;ve posted before, is the tigress coin; you can see what&#039;s left of the stripes that make it a tigress rather than a panther.*&nbsp; I&#039;m finally persuaded that the mintmark is, in fact, a 2nd Officina &quot;B&quot;&nbsp; -- even though it looks like a &quot;D,&quot; without any hint of the indentation that would make it a &quot;B&quot; -- now that I know that the series used a Greek Delta rather than a Latin &quot;D&quot; to signify the 4th officina.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107228[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve often thought about buying other coins in the Gallienus zoo series.&nbsp; The problem is that most of the inexpensive examples don&#039;t look very good, whereas the few truly nice examples tend to sell for rather more than I really want to spend.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Regarding [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]&#039;s &quot;which is correct&quot; question about panther vs. tigress, the answer is &quot;both,&quot; even though the catalogs acknowledge only the panther and use the same catalog number for both types.&nbsp; See my post at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313620" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313620">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313620</a>, and [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]&#039;s post at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313252" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313252">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ojs-big-cat-sanctuary.357879/#post-4313252</a>, in the &quot;OJ&#039;s Big Cat Sanctuary&quot; thread from earlier this month, with [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]&#039;s link to Jim Phelps&#039;s NumisWiki article at <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber%20Pater" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber%20Pater" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber Pater</a>.&nbsp; The article demonstrates conclusively (in my opinion) the existence of the two different types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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