Ex Mabbot Collection

321, Lot: 303. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (28mm, 10.06 g, 6h). Marcus Aurelius Philetos Hippikos, strategos. Struck AD 253-260. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / The Amazon Smyrna standing facing, head left, holding patera, bipennis and chlamys. Klose Group LXXV, Series A, 2.2 (V1/R2) = Mabbott 1636 (this coin). VF, brown patina, hard green deposits, a few adjustment marks on obverse. Very rare, one of two known to close for this variety.

Ex Thomas Olive Mabbott Collection (Hans M. F. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 1636.