442, Lot: 188. Estimate $75.
Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of two (2) coins.
MIR Plate Coin188a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (18.5mm, 2.36 g, 6h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 7th issue, AD 262. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / [LIB]ERALIT AVG, Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 457q
1 corr. (no P in exergue;
this coin illustrated); RIC V (sole reign) 228 var. (bust type); Cunetio 1033; Normanby 114 (
this coin illustrated). Fine, coppery surfaces, rough edge.
Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH
854], no. 114 (part of).MIR erroneously notes this coin as the sole example of an issue with the officina mark P in the exergue. Upon close inspection, there is no officina mark here, as noted in the Normanby catalogue.
188b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19.5mm, 2.61 g, 12h). Rome mint. 7th issue, AD 262. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / LIBERT AVG, Libertas / Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 457–8 var. (rev. legend); RIC V (sole reign) 227–8 var. (rev. legend of 231–2); Cunetio –; I. A. Carradice, “The Market Deeping, Lincs., hoard” in
Coin Hoards in Roman Britiain IV (1984), p. 46 and 62 (
this coin). Fine, roughness and corrosion, thin flan crack.
Ex Glendining’s (30 September 1998), lot 139 (part of); Deeping St. James (Market Deeping), Lincolnshire, Hoard (1980) [IRBCH
699].This coin combines a reverse legend of Libertas with a design representing Liberalitas.
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