CNG 99, Lot: 700. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 15.02 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission, AD 253-254. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Concordia standing left, holding patera and double cornucopia. RIC V 209 var. (bust type); MIR 36, 15 var. (same); Banti 10. Good VF, dark gray-brown patina, some red, slightly irregular flan. Portrait of artistic merit. Rare.

From the LJH Collection, purchased from Herakles, October 2005.