442, Lot: 334. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(2), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head left / COHH PRAET VII P VII F, radiate lion walking right. MIR 36, – [980f]; RIC V (joint reign) 372; Cunetio –. Near EF, toned, green deposits, flan flaw.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXIV (6 May 1995), lot 384.

This combination of bust type and reverse, although listed in RIC, is not recorded in MIR (This is bust lB2, not lB1, which is MIR 980c.)