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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Gallienus| > RL88748
Gallienus, August 253 - September 268 A.D.
|Gallienus|, |Gallienus,| |August| |253| |-| |September| |268| |A.D.|, Liberalitas coin types attest to occasions when the emperor has displayed his generosity towards the people by a distribution to them of money, provisions, or both. The first mention of Liberalitas was on coins of Hadrian. It was a type frequently repeated by the succeeding emperors. Indeed these instances of imperial generosity are more carefully recorded on coins than they are by history. Liberality is personified by the image of a woman, holding in one hand a counting board, or square tablet with a handle on which are cut a certain number of holes. These boards were used to quickly count the proper number of coins or other items for distribution to each person. In the other hand she holds a cornucopia, to indicate the prosperity of the state and the abundance of wheat contained in the public granaries.
RL88748. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 645a var. (LIBERTAS), RSC VI 585 corr. or var. (LIBERITAS, left hand "hanging"), RIC V-1 -, SRCV III -, F, a little rough, porous, light earthen deposits, 5th officina, Rome mint, weight 2.786g, maximum diameter 19.7mm, die axis 0o, 265 - Sep 268 A.D.; obverse GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right; reverse LIBER[I?]TAS AVG (appears to have an addtional I, in error), Libertas standing half left, head left, pileus (freedom cap) in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, E right; extremely rare; SOLD











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