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Triton XVII, Lot: 778. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (33mm, 21.16 g, 6h). Antiochia ad Maeandrum mint; Aphrodisios, archon. AY[T] K ΠO ΓAΛΛIHNO, radiate, helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield / [ЄΠI AP]X • AΦPOΔICIOY • IЄPAKOC •, [AN]TIOX[Є]ΩN in exergue, Jupiter Capitolinus, holding Nike on globe in right hand and scepter in left, seated left before table carrying agonistic urn containing two palms and inscribed [OYA]ΛЄ[PIA?]; amphora below table. Unpublished in the standard references, but for similar without magistrate’s name see: BMC 2431; SNG Copenhagen 63; SNG Hunterian 1910; SNG Lewis 1639. Good VF, brown patina, natural pit on reverse.


For another coin of this magistrate, see SNG von Aulock 2431.