Notwithstanding the author's pretensions regarding the time during which these persons aspired to the throne, this list includes: • two women and six youths who never claimed imperial dignity • seven men who either certainly or probably never claimed imperial dignity • three probably and two possibly fictitious persons • two pretenders admittedly not contemporary with Gallienus • three pretenders not contemporary with Gallienus Leaving nine pretenders roughly contemporary with Gallienus. According to
David Magie (the editor of the Loeb Classical Library edition of the
Historia Augusta), at least some of these men issued coins. ==See also==