Unique Medallion

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 469. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Valerian I, with Gallienus and Valerian II Caesar. AD 253-260. Æ Medallion (35mm, 19.32 g, 12h). AYT K OYALEPIANOC/GALLIHNOC •/OYALEPI/ANOC, CEBBB in exergue, laureate and draped bust of Valerian I right vis-à-vis laureate and draped bust of Gallienus left; between them, laureate and draped bust of Valerian II right / MEGIC/TWN APIC/T W N above, NIKAIEWN in exergue, three agonistic crowns, each containing two palms, set on ornate table top. Cf. Weiser, Nikaia 262; cf. RG 822-4 bis; cf. SNG Hunterian 1140; cf. SNG von Aulock 721; cf. SNG Copenhagen 537 (all examples Æ Tetrassaria). VF, dark green patina, light overall roughness. Unique as a medallion.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection. Ex Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (Part I, Hans Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 1164; Münzen und Medaillen XIII (17 June 1954), lot 878.