Years of Crisis
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Soldiers on the Throne

Part 2: Trebonianus Gallus to Tetricus II

see also Part 1: Maximinus Thrax to Trajanus Decius
           Part 3: Claudius II Gothicus to Diocletianus

Trebonianus Gallus (251-253 AD)


 

Volusianus (251-253 AD)

Volusian double aurei
Antoninian
 

Aemilianus (253 AD)

 

Uranius Antoninus (243-254 AD)


 
 

Valerianus I (253-260 AD)
Sestertius of Valerian I


 

Gallienus (253-268 AD)
antoninianus



8 aurei medallion of Gallienus

4 aurei medallion

Salonina, his wife

 
 

Valerianus II (256-258 AD)
aureus
antoninianus

Saloninus (259 AD)



 

Usurpators in the East after the defeat of Valerian I:
 

Macrianus (260-261 AD)

Quietus (260-261 AD)

 

Usurpator in Pannonia:

Regalianus (260 AD)

 
 
 

Usurpators in the West:  Gallia and Britannia, Germania 259 -273 AD

Postumus  (259-268 AD)
aureus

for the legions

Laelianus (268 AD)

Marius (268 AD)

Victorinus (268-270 AD)
aureus
Victorinus for Legio XXX Ulpia Traiana
copper Antoninianus
 

Domitianus, usurpator in Britannia and Gallia (ca. 271 AD)

only 2 coins known, one found in 1900 in France, the example shown in 2003 near Oxford, UK) (picture British Museum)

Tetricus I (270-273 AD)
aureus

copper Antoninianus

Tetricus II (270-273 AD)
copper Antoninianus
 
 
 

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