Reunited After 1,752 Years!

If this statue is any indication it must have been awful. It goes all the way down the neck. Yikes

ironically enough he’s got a little bitty Gordian style mustache. So cute

 

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That is AWFUL!!!!

I LOVE IT!

I've never seen this statue before.

 

Here's another bust

 

After he shaved from the last bust

 

It’s always been strange to me how his statuary is so naturalistic while his coinage runs the gamut from being okay to being the people I used to draw as a kid

 

His coinage really started the beginning of the downfall of Roman artistry in coins IMO.
After him, everything seems to blend together in a few groups as they get more and more generic: Claudius II/Quintillus/Aurellian/Probus/etc...and then all the LRB stuff.

 

Great additions to your growing collection, @furryfrog02 !

I have only three Alexandrian tets from this dynasty, even though I have a lot of antoniniani of the reign.

There's this one of Gallienus, with a nice portrait on the obverse and a ... umm ... less well-preserved reverse:


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 8.70 g, 23 mm.
Egypt, Alexandria, AD 266/7.Obv: AVT K Π ΛIK ΓAΛΛIHNOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: Homonoia standing left, raising hand and holding double cornucopia; L IΔ (= regnal year 14) before, palm frond behind.
Refs: Dattari (Savio) 5246; BMCG 2186; Cologne 2937; Milne 4136; RCV 10580; Emmett 3816.14; K&G 90.93.

And a couple of Salonina with the eagles facing in different directions:


Cornelia Salonina, AD 253-268.
Roman billon tetradrachm; 8.96 g, 21.7 mm.
Egypt, Alexandria, AD 266-267.
Obv: ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΑ CΑΛѠΝЄΙΝΑ CЄΒ, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: Eagle standing left, wings open, holding wreath in beak, L IΔ before, palm behind.
Refs: Dattari 5345; BMCG 2278; Köln 2977; Milne 4151; RCV 1071.


Cornelia Salonina, AD 253-268.
Roman billon tetradrachm; 9.95 g, 22.3 mm.
Egypt, Alexandria, AD 267-268.
Obv: ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΑ CΑΛѠΝЄΙΝΑ CЄΒ, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: Eagle standing right, wings open, holding wreath in beak, L IЄ before, palm behind.
Refs: Dattari 5346; BMCG 2280; Köln 2983; Milne 4189; RCV 10723.

 

Nice couple reunion! I'll contribute this ex x6 tetradrachm of their unfortunate son Saloninus, who was murdered by Postumus.


SALONINUS
Potin Tetradrachm. 13.0g, 24mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 7 of Valerian I and Gallienus (AD 259/60). Emmett 3777; Dattari (Savio) 5377. O: ΠO ΛI KOP CA VAΛЄPIANOC K CЄB, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak; L Z (date) across field.
Ex Stevex6 Collection (CNG E-311, 25 Sep 2013, lot 948); ex Robert M. Harlick Collection

 

Mirdered by postumus? I never knew that. Very interesting. Could you point me to some literature? I don’t know much about the man himself, but enjoy his coinage, especially the dichotomy between the extremely naturalistic busts and extremely abstract reverses

 

Zosimus's Historia Nova has a couple of paragraphs that briefly covers Postumus's revolt against Gallienus.

 

While we are there, here is the other son, Valerian II


Valerian II, Tetradrachm - Alexandria mint, year 4 (AD 256-257)
TT LIK KOPOYALEPIANOS KAIE CEB, bare bust, draped and cuirassed
Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak. L delta in field
10,18 gr
Ref : Emmett # 3764/4
RCV # 10754

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