442, Lot: 199. Estimate $750. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (20.5mm, 2.84 g, 11h). Aureus offstrike. Rome mint. 7th issue, AD 262. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing facing, head left, holding two standards. MIR 36, 523k(2) (same dies); as RIC V (sole reign) 39 (aureus). EF, slightly double struck.

Ex New York Sale III (7 December 2000), lot 759.

MIR describes these coins as offstrikes from aureus dies. Only two denarii (479t and 490u) are listed for issue 7.