442, Lot: 231. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Light Aureus (16.5mm, 1.37 g, 6h). Rome mint. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate head right / VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding bunch of grapes and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 664b; RIC V (sole reign) 120 (‘quinarius’); Calicó 3594a. Good VF, wavy flan, smoothed, edge marks.

Ex Maison Palombo 3 (6 May 2006), lot 98.

The object held in the figure’s right hand is here described as a bunch of grapes, as in RIC. See introductory section ‘notes on common types’ for discussion of this.