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442, Lot: 134. Estimate $300.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing facing, head right; right hand rests on club, left holds bow and lionskin. MIR 36, 341x; RIC V (sole reign) 595 (Siscia); Cunetio 1007; Normanby –; Chalfont –. Near EF, lightly toned, area of porosity on reverse. Very rare, only four noted by MIR, including the one in Cunetio (now in BM).


Bought from CGB, Paris, 2012. Ex CGB Rome 32 (2012), no. 283248.