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442, Lot: 437. Estimate $100.
Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 437a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.16 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 4, AD 262-3. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / PERPETVITATI AVG, Securitas standing left, leaning on column, holding globe and sceptre. MIR 36, 1075aa; RIC V (sole reign) 504; Cunetio 1530. Fine, some silver content, porous, flan irregular.

Bought from CGB, Paris, 2010. Ex CGB Rome XXVI (2010), no. 227880.

This unusual reverse type combines the theme of Aeternitas – the endless continuity of the Roman Empire under the protection of the emperor – with that of Securitas – the safety of the empire and its people, again under the protection of the emperor.

437b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.63 g, 1h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 4, AD 262-3. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head left / AEQ[VITA]S AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 1082i; RIC V (sole reign) 464 var. (no officina mark); Cunetio –. Fine, some silver content, porous, flan irregular. Extremely rare, only one noted by MIR (in Rome).

Ex Glendining’s (30 September 1998), lot 139 (part of); Deeping St. James (Market Deeping), Lincolnshire, Hoard (1980) [IRBCH 699].

437c Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (23mm, 2.54 g, 1h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 2nd officina. Issue 4, AD 262-3. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head left / AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae; S in right field. MIR 36, 1084n; RIC V (sole reign) 464; Cunetio –. Fine, some silver content, porous, flan irregular. Extremely rare, only one noted by MIR (in Goeblingen).

Bought from Lennox Gallery, 1997.

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