442, Lot: 163. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Binio (21mm, 2.76 g, 7h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / IOVI VLTORI, Jupiter walking left, head turned back, brandishing thunderbolt; cloak trails out behind; S in left field. MIR 36, 410c; RIC V (sole reign) 52; Calicó 3528. VF, wavy flan, edge nick. Very rare.

Ex Elsen 65 (17 March 2001), lot 690.

This coin is discussed and illustrated by Doyen 1987. It is from the same obverse die as a specimen in the collections of the British Museum, London, and the specimen illustrated as MIR 410c (Perret collection [Bourgey 1958] = Leu 22 [1979], lot 341). Doyen knew of eight examples of this coin, with widely varying weights, this being the lightest. All were struck from different reverse dies, indicating that the dies were used mainly in the striking of antoniniani.