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442, Lot: 282. Estimate $500.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ As (26mm, 13.50 g, 12h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2b. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TEMPORVM FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 810v; Gnecchi p. 54 and Tav. 154, 19 (there catalogued as a medallion). Good VF, green patina, smoothing. Extremely rare, MIR notes one example, the Gnecchi piece.


Ex Sternberg XXXIII (18 September 1997), lot 304.

Like lot 271, this coin was also at one time considered to be a medallion.