Aureus - Victorinus Cologne

Victorinus ruled the Gallic Empire for roughly two years before being murdered by one of his own officers — allegedly over a personal grievance involving the man's wife. His reign was nonetheless productive enough to generate a substantial coinage from the Cologne mint, which had become the primary production center for the breakaway state after Postumus established it as such in 260. The Gallic Empire at this point controlled Roman Britain, Gaul, and parts of Germania, and maintained full imperial mint operations entirely independent of Rome.

RIC V.2 #7 is among the scarcer aureus types of his reign. Calicó's attribution places it firmly in the Cologne sequence.