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Gallienus. Double Sestertius; Gallienus; 253-268 AD, Rome, 265-8 AD, Double Sestertius, 11.87g. RIC-p. 361, 2 (R), C-334 (12 Fr.), Göbl-702h (33 spec.). Obv: [GENIV]S P R Head of Genius of the Roman People, but with facial features of Gallienus, radiate and wearing mural crown. Rx: INT / VRB above and below large S C, all in wreath. Rare: the corpus published by D. Yonge, "The So-Called Interregnum Coinage", Num. Chronicle 139, 1979, includes 71 specimens of this coin from 23 obverse and 22 reverse dies. The radiate crown on the obverse indicates that this is a double sestertius; the same types were also struck as a sestertius, on somewhat lighter flans and with a laurel wreath replacing the radiate crown. The precise dating and occasion of these remarkable anonymous bronze coins is uncertain: Gallienus seem to be assimilated to the Spirit of the Roman People, and the wreath on the reverse may have been voted to him by the Senate on the occasion of his entrance into Rome, though it is difficult to propose a satisfactory expansion of the abbreviated words INT VRB. In RIC these coins are wrongly assigned to the interregnum following the death of Aurelian in 275 AD: the regular bronze coinage had ended by that time and the few rare pieces that were still struck are of a different style and module.Olive patination.. VF