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442, Lot: 285. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ As (23.5mm, 9.21 g, 1h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2c. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, holding flower and raising robe. MIR 36, 827w; Gnecchi vol. 3, p. 55 and Tafel 154, 20 (there catalogued as a medallion). VF, pale green patina, roughness around edges. Extremely rare, MIR notes one example, the Gnecchi piece.


Ex Gorny & Mosch 147 (6 March 2006), lot 2275.

Like lots 271 and 282, this coin was also at one time considered to be a medallion.