Ex von Schulthess-Rechberg and Mazzini Collections
Banti Plate Coin

Triton XIX, Lot: 609. Estimate $20000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (34.5mm, 27.99 g, 7h). Rome mint. 6th–11th emissions, AD 261-268. GALLIENVS PIVS FEL AVG, bearded head right, wearing lion skin headdress / MONETA AVG, the Tres Monetae, each standing left on ground line, holding scales in right hand and cradling cornucopia in left arm; at feet of each to left, a heap of coins. Gnecchi 20; MIR 36, 754k; Banti 36 (this coin illustrated); Cohen 645; Mazzini 645 (this coin). VF, dark green-brown patina, areas of roughness, traces of prior gilding. Very rare.

Ex Erich von Schulthess-Rechberg Collection (Hess-Leu 17, 23 March 1961), lot 355; Giuseppe Mazzini Collection, 645.