442, Lot: 135. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 135a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 2.97 g, 1h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust left, right shoulder draped / VIRTVS AVG, Mars / Virtus standing left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; P in left field. MIR 36, 343 var. (bust type lBiP2, not listed for this issue); RIC V (sole reign) 317 var. (bust type and rev. with sceptre, not spear); Cunetio 928 var. (bust type); Normanby –; Chalfont –. VF, toned, weak strike, edge splits. Struck on a broad flan.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987.

135b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.88 g, 11h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust right, left shoulder draped / VIRTVS AVG, Mars / Virtus standing left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; P in right field. MIR 36, 344c; RIC V (sole reign) 317; Cunetio 922. Good VF, red deposits.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH 854], no. 65 (part of).

135c Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (18mm, 1.98 g, 7h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust left, right shoulder draped / VIRTVS AVG, Mars / Virtus standing left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; P in right field. MIR 36, 344 var. (bust lBiP2, not listed for this issue); RIC V (sole reign) 317 var. (bust type and rev. with sceptre, not spear); Cunetio 926 var. (bust type); Normanby –; Chalfont –. VF, toned, tight flan.

Bought from Spink, 1992. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular C.4 (May 1992), no. 2427.

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