Extremely Rare Gallienus Medallion

345, Lot: 419. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Antiochia ad Maeandrum. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (33mm, 21.16 g, 6h). 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. Cf. BMC 2431; cf. SNG Copenhagen 63; cf. SNG Hunterian 1910; cf. SNG Lewis 1639 (all refs. for type, but without magistrate's name); Triton XVII, lot 778 (this coin). Good VF, brown patina, natural pit on reverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 778.