CNG 90, Lot: 1684. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 17.61 g, 6h). Rome mint. 1st emission, AD 253-254. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTIS/DECENNA/[LI]BVS /S C within wreath. RIC V 250 var. (bust type); MIR 36, 40bb; Banti 90 var. (same). VF, attractive green patina.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 317. Purchased by Vermeule from A.H. Baldwin, October 1953.