442, Lot: 150. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 4.09 g, 7h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head left / VIRTVS AVG, Virtus standing left, holding shield on ground and vertical spear; VI in right field. MIR 36, 375b; RIC V (sole reign) 325; Cunetio 1091; Normanby –; Chalfont –. VF, light porosity. Very rare, only three noted by MIR (including the one in Cunetio, now in BM).

Bought from Manton Associates, 1993.