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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Gallienus| > RA87015
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D.
|Gallienus|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.|, Gallienus was the first Roman emperor to commission primarily cavalry units, the Comitatenses, that could be dispatched anywhere in the Empire in short order. He also forbade senators from becoming military commanders. These policies undermined senatorial power, as equestrian commanders rose to prominence. These reforms and the decline in senatorial influence not only helped Aurelian to salvage the Empire, but they also make Gallienus one of the emperors most responsible for the creation of the Dominate, along with Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine I.
RA87015. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 1687m (Samosata), SRCV III 10414 var. (obv legend, Syrian mint), RIC V-1 456 (Antioch), VF, well centered, toned, light pitting, uncertain Syrian mint, weight 3.744g, maximum diameter 22.5mm, 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 hand, facing Gallienus on right offering Victory to Valerian, transverse spear in left; SOLD











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