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SC:
Beautiful item!

I too had immediately thought Tetrarchic (1st) given the four heads and the style. 

However, I see that one of the two threads Areich linked to postulates that it is instead Valerian I and his family (Gallienus, Valerian II and Saloninus I guess).  That is interesting and makes sense in some ways.  First these are usually most common in early to mid 3rd century.  I have a very similar one showing what is almost certainly a bust of Gallienus.  Second the fact that they all wear radiate crowns is more indicitive of mid-3rd century than Tetrarchic despite fact the Tetrarchic gang still used radiate crown on pre- and post-reform radiates.

Shawn

quadrans:
Thank you Shawn :)

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