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GALLIENUS AE antoninianus - 267-268 AD (sole reign)
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obv: GALLIENVS AVG (radiate head right)
rev: NEPTVNO CONS AVG (hippocamp right), N in ex.
ref: RIC 245, RSC 667
mint: Rome
3.48gms, 19mm
scarcer
The Hippocamp was a sea horse that was half horse, half fish with a serpents tail. In Roman imagery Neptune often drives a sea-chariot drawn by hippocamps.
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