442, Lot: 424. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 1.85 g, 5h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 3(1), AD 262. IMP G[ALLIENV]S AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, with aegis at left shoulder / FIDES E[XER]C VI[II], Fides standing facing, head right, holding one vertical and one transverse standard. MIR 36, 1029 var. (obv. legend and bust type); RIC V (sole reign) 478 var. (bust type, no officina mark); Cunetio –. VF, brown surfaces, red encrustation, flan a little irregular.

Bought from Manton Associates, 1993.

The longer obverse legend is recorded in this issue by MIR on only two coins (1028f and 1028r, with reverse ADVENTVS AVG). This bust type is not recorded for this reverse type at all.