442, Lot: 212. Estimate $500. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion / offstrike (21mm, 4.91 g, 1h). Rome mint. 8th issue, AD 264-5. GALL[IE]NVM AVG SENATVS, laureate bust left in consular robes / P M TR P XII COS VI P P, Gallienus in slow quadriga to right, holding eagle-tipped sceptre. MIR 36, 566b; Gnecchi (1912) vol. III. p. 55, no. 72. Fine, green patina, roughness.

Bought from Baldwin's, 1996.

Again Göbl in MIR describes this as an Abschlag (offstrike) from dies intended for the production of 4-aureus gold multiples, rather than as a medallion, as previously thought. The reverse inscription and the consular robe and eagle-tipped sceptre all demonstrate that this issue was intended to mark the consular procession in Rome on 1 January AD 264. The obverse die was also used for striking issues (MIR 567b and 568b) in celebration of the anticipated victory over Postumus, but this does not, of course, necessarily mean that they were all struck at the same time. The obverse legend is in the form of a dedication by the Senate to the emperor.