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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Themes & Provenance| > |Hoards| > |Antioch Hoard| > RA39849
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D.
|Antioch| |Hoard|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.|, In 256 A.D., the cities in the Roman Empire begin to build walls as the defense of the frontiers collapsed. The Goths invaded Asia Minor, Dacia was lost, and they appeared at the walls of Thessalonica. The Franks crossed the Rhine. The Alamanni penetrated to Milan. In Africa, the Berbers massacred Roman colonists. King Shapur I invaded Mesopotamia and Syria and plundered Antioch, Zeugma, and Dura-Europos.
RA39849. Billon antoninianus, AHG 260 (this coin), Göbl MIR 1703m (Samosata), RSC IV 1310a (Antioch), RIC V-1 J456 (Antioch), Hunter IV J70, SRCV III 10414 var. (obv. leg., etc.), VF, unusual small bust, Syrian mint, weight 3.537g, maximum diameter 21.0mm, die axis 180o, 255 - 256 A.D.; obverse IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse VIRTVS AVGG (valor of the two emperors), Valerian on left, holding scepter in right, globe in left; facing Gallienus on right offering Victory to Valerian, transverse spear in left, wreath above; from the Antioch Hoard of Gallienus; SOLD












Click here to see the Malloy catalogue, including analysis of the hoard by Dr. David W. Sorenson and Camden W. Percival, and the coins offered by Mr. Malloy in 1992.

Click here to read "The Age of Gallienus" by Camden W. Percival.

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