442, Lot: 215. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Quinarius (15mm, 1.35 g, 12h). Rome mint. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS P F AVG, laureate head right / AETERNITAS AVG, Sol standing left, right hand raised, left holding globe. MIR 36, 576ff var. (obv. legend); RIC V – (cf. denarius, sole reign 348); King 7A var. (obv. legend). Good VF, green patina.

Ex Ars Antiqua I (3 November 2000), lot 398.

This coin has been placed at this point in the series on the basis of its reverse type. The obverse legend was used on some aurei and antoniniani of Issue 9 (MIR 666, 667, 669, 673, 680, and 683), but not in combination with this reverse type.