442, Lot: 366. Estimate $200. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 3.01 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(2), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, holding spear over left shoulder / LEG II ITAL VII P VII F, she-wolf standing left, suckling Romulus and Remus. MIR 36, – [993s]; RIC V (joint reign) 330; Cunetio – . VF, deposits.

Ex Showers Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 37, 20 March 1996), lot 1752.

MIR does not record a coin of this type in Tabelle 29, but the photograph labelled 993o on Tafel 77 is of a coin of type 993s (wreath-ties in position 2). It is the only specimen of either type recorded in MIR, and is in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.