442, Lot: 449. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (23mm, 2.58 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 1st officina. Issue 6, AD 266. IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG [COS VI], radiate bust left in consular robe, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, raising both hands; altar at feet, to left; P in exergue. MIR 36, 1277q (same obv. die as illustration); RIC V (sole reign) 505 var. (bust type); Cunetio –. VF, brown surfaces, traces of silver, minor green deposits on reverse. Extremely rare, only one piece noted by MIR (in the BM).

Bought from Spink, 1992. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular C.4 (May 1992), no. 2432.