MIR Illustrated Denarius / Aureus Offstrike – Ex Benz Collection

442, Lot: 288. Estimate $200. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius / aureus offstrike (19.5mm, 1.89 g, 6h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2c. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, helmeted figure standing facing, head left, right foot on helmet, holding globe and spear. MIR 36, 830s (this coin, erroneously placed in column r in Tabelle 23); RIC V –; Doyen 1985, p. 109, 19 (this coin). Near VF, green deposits, flan flaw.

Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 100, 20 November 2000), lot 347; Lanz 16 (24 April 1979), lot 602.

The item held in the left hand of the figure on the reverse is clearly a spear, with point downwards, whereas that on the previous two coins is a sceptre, without any point.