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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3948055, member: 57495&quot;]Great boar!&nbsp; On Frederic Weber&#039;s <a href="http://www.fredericweber.com/GALLIEN/emission_du_bestiaire/index.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fredericweber.com/GALLIEN/emission_du_bestiaire/index.htm" rel="nofollow">page on Gallienus&#039;s zoo coins</a>, he gives the boar a rating of &quot;R&quot; and the lion a rating of &quot;RR&quot;.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how he calculates the figures, but he states that the HERCVLI types (boar and lion) account for 0.56% of the zoo issue, second in rarity to the MERCVRIO type with the Criocamp, which represent 0.38% of the issue.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040353[/ATTACH]<b>GALLIENUS</b></p><p>AE Antoninianus. 3.35g, 22.1mm. Rome mint, 8th officina, 10th issue, AD 267-268. &#039;Zoo&#039; series. MIR 36, 741b; RIC V (sole reign) 242; Wolkow 21a8 (R); Cunetio 1389. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right. R: MERCVRIO CONS AVG, Criocamp to right; H in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection; ex Rauch Sommerauktion 2010 (13 September 2010), lot 1208</i> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s also a bull, dedicated to SOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040354[/ATTACH]<b>GALLIENUS</b></p><p>AE Antoninianus. 3.41g, 22.7mm. Rome mint, 11th officina, 10th issue, AD 267-268. &#039;Zoo&#039; series. MIR 36, 749b; RIC V (sole reign) 285; Wolkow 28a11 (R);Cunetio 1404. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right. R: SOLI CONS AVG, bull standing right; XI in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection (bought from Baldwin&#039;s, 1990)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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