341, Lot: 77. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Coele-Syria. Damascus. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (22mm, 7.44 g, 6h). [IMP?] CΛES P LI[C] C-ΛLLEИVS ΛVC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / CЄBΛ/CMIΛ in two lines within wreath resembling two cornucopias. Cf. De Saulcy 6 (Valerian I) and 2 (Gallienus); Rosenberger –; BMC –; SNG München 1026 (same dies; Valerian I?); Mabbot II 2602 (same obv. die); Lindgren III A1263a (same obv. die; uncertain emperor). VF, brown patina, earthen highlights. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Possibly the best preserved specimen. The Mabbot coin is unillustrated in the catalog but is now also in the Wagner Collection.