442, Lot: 332. Estimate $50. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.11 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(2), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head left / COHH PRAET VII P VI F (sic), radiate lion walking right. MIR 36, Tafel 131, T45; RIC V (joint reign) 371; Cunetio –. Near VF.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1996. Ex Jacquier FPL 18 (Autumn 1996), no. 602.

This reverse legend results from a die-sinker’s error, apparently on just a single reverse die, which was paired with more than one obverse.