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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4313620, member: 110350"]Thanks, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] , for posting these coins and the link to the note confirming the two different types, and even suggesting that the tigress rather than the panther was intended as the primary type.  It's interesting that none of the catalogues -- not RIC, not RSC, and not RCV -- has made the distinction between the two; all just list the coin under one number as showing a panther. In light of all this, do you (or anyone else) have an opinion as to whether my example shows a panther or a tigress?  And as to whether the officina mark in the reverse exergue shows a B or a D? (According to RCV, it should always be a B.) Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, Rome Mint 267-268 AD. Obv. Radiate head right, GALLIENVS AVG /Rev. Panther or Tigress walking left, LIBERO  P • CONS AVG; B or D in exergue. RIC V-1 230, RSC IV 586, Sear RCV III 10281. 19mm, 2.83g, 6h. [ATTACH=full]1096806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1096808[/ATTACH] Unless I'm imagining them, and even though the coin is rather worn, I'm pretty sure I see the remnants of some vertical stripes on the animal.  And it's undoubtedly a female.  So I'm inclined to think that it's intended to be a tigress, not a panther. (As for the officina mark, I just don't see a B -- to me, that looks like a D, although of course one never knows.)[/QUOTE]