About a century has now elapsed since an important question arose among the most celebrated Antiquaries, concerning a Gold Medal of the Emperor Gallienus in the King of France's Cabinet. It exhibits on one side the head Of the Emperor crowned with ears of corn, with the inscription GALLIENAE AVGVSTAE. The name of a woman over the head of an Emperor conveyed to many persons the idea of a medallic satire. Frederic Spanheim [a], Vaillant [b], Baudelot [c], Banduri [a], and Grainville [e], conceived themselves authorised in adopting this opinion, inasmuch as the Emperor Julian in his Cæsars represents Gallienus coming to the Banquet of the Gods in the habit and with the air of a woman [f]. The legend on the reverse VBIQVE PAX, at a time when war desolated all the provinces of the Empire, tended admirably to confirm the opinion of these learned men.