442, Lot: 274. Estimate $50. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (17.5mm, 1.85 g, 6h). Mule with reverse of Claudius II. Rome mint. GALLIE[NVS AVG], radiate head right / ANNONA AVG, Annona standing left, foot on prow, holding corn-ears and cornucopiae. Normanby 382/2 (this coin, illustrated); reverse as RIC V 18 of Claudius II. VF, brown patina.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH 854], no. 382/2.

This appears to be an official striking, combining an obverse of Gallienus’s final issue at Rome with a reverse of Claudius II, It can only be assumed that this coin was struck in the immediate aftermath of Gallienus’s murder and the accession of Claudius II, when there must have been some confusion at the mint.