Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3300489, member: 80804&quot;]Gallienus most definitely issued clearly silvered issues in a billon so deficient in AR that it might as well described as Æ as billon.</p><p>Gallienus&#039; silvered issues begin in the early 360&#039;s, not long after the defeat of Valerian by the Sasanians.</p><p>Of course, the differences from mint-to-mint need to be taken into account - Antioch seemed to manage to strike in a clearly silvery billon throughout Gallienus&#039; time while Rome was clearly silvering as early as 262 or thereabouts.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album107/ML_21_Gallienus_Saecularhs_stag_ant.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gallienus, billon Antoninianus, 21mm, 3.93gm, 11h</p><p>Mint of Antioch, 265 A.D.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rx: SAECVLARHS (sic) AVG stag standing right, branch in exergue</p><p><i>RIC V, i S656, RSC 924, SR 10345.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album107/ML_22_Gallienus_Securit_Perpet_ant.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Silvered &quot;billon&quot; from Rome mint,</p><p>Gallienus, silvered Antoninianus, 21mm, 4.56g, 1h.</p><p>Mint of Rome, 265-267 A.D.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG radiate head right.</p><p>Rx: SECVRIT PERPET Securitas standing left, legs crossed, holding scepter and leaning on column; in field right: H.</p><p><i>RIC V, i S280; RSC 961a; SR 10359.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Another - not as pretty as the last but shows the silvering more clearly</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album107/ML_13_Gallienus_Iovi_Propug_ant.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gallienus, silvered Antoninianus</p><p>22mm, 2.78g, 12h. Mint of Rome, 264-266 A.D.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG radiate head right.</p><p>Rx: IOVI PROPVGNAT Jupiter standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt; field left: XI.</p><p><i>RIC V, i S214; RSC 382a; SR 10244.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>It&#039;s possible that you associate silvering with Aurelian due to the coinage reforms he instituted. One of these was an improvement of the silvering process. You&#039;ll notice that surviving silvering is far easier to find among the coins of the Illyrians (Probus, for instance). Finding sole-reign Gallienus ants from mints other than Antioch which are silvery billon or clearly show silvering is difficult - not unlike how difficult it is (despite all of them having originally been silvered) to find a silvered Constantinian era GLORIA EXERCITVS or other centenionalis of that enormous issue. The silvering was so 2nd rate by that time that few realize all the centenionales (and later, the FEL TEMP majorinae) were silvered.</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album165/61_Constantine_I_GE2_ALE.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Constantine I, 307-337 A.D. silvered billon centenionails</p><p>18mm, 2.81g, 12h. Mint of Alexandria, 333-35 A.D.</p><p>Obv: CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG laurel &amp; rosette diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rx: GLORIA EXERCITVS 2 Soldiers standing facing, holding spears and leaning on shields; between them, 2 standards; in ex: SMALB.</p><p><i>RIC VII 58; LRBC 1428; Cf. SR (&#039;88) 3886.</i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in