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3.685g, 24.5mm. Good XF struck on good metal with good dies. Attractive portrait
Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. Struck AD 257-260. GALLIENVS · P · F · AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, figure walking right, holding spear and trophy.
The figure on the reverse is described in RIC and MIR as Mars, but in the Cunetio and Stevenage reports as a personification of Virtus. On this coin he clearly wears a laurel wreath, so is probably intended to represent the emperor.
