442, Lot: 222. Estimate $75.
Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of four (4) coins.
222a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19.5mm, 3.27 g, 6h). Rome mint, 8th officina. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate bust right, with drapery on left shoulder / SECVRIT PERPET, Securitas standing left, legs crossed, holding sceptre and leaning on column; H in right field. MIR 36, 595b; RIC V (sole reign) 280 var. (bust type); Cunetio 1246 var. (same); Normanby 245 corr. (bust A2 instead of A3; this coin, illustrated). Near VF, coppery brown surfaces.
Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH
854], no. 245. 222b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.96 g, 5h). Rome mint. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding standard and sceptre. MIR 36, 599w; RIC V (sole reign) 192a var. (no officina mark); Cunetio 1267. VF.
Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH
854], no. 254 (part of). 222c Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19.5mm, 3.34 g, 1h). Rome mint, 11th officina. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / INDVLGENTIA AVG, Indulgentia standing left, holding baton and cornucopiae, left elbow leaning on column; wheel at feet, to left; XI in exergue. MIR 36, 639a; RIC V (sole reign) 206 var. (position of officina mark); Cunetio 1284 var. (same). Near VF, coppery surfaces, faint porosity. Extremely rare, only one example noted by MIR.
Ex Glendining’s (18 October 1990), lot 308 (part of). 222d Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 2.58 g, 6h). Rome mint, 12 officina. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / CONSERVAT PIETAT, emperor standing left, holding patera and sceptre; kneeling figure at his feet; XII in right field. MIR 36, 647t; RIC V (sole reign) 171a var. (bust type); Cunetio 1299. Fine, coppery surfaces, roughness and porosity, ragged edge. Extremely rare, only one example noted by MIR (the Cunetio piece, now in the BM).
Ex Glendining’s (12 December 1990), lot 109 (part of). . .
