MIR Plate Coin

442, Lot: 370. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19.5mm, 3.28 g, 1h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(2), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear, pointing upwards, and shield on left shoulder / LEG II PART VI P VI F, centaur prancing right, holding club. MIR 36, 997i (this coin illustrated); RIC V (joint reign) 336; Cunetio 1455. Near VF, brown surfaces, flan crack. Very rare with this bust.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1989.