442, Lot: 458. Estimate $100. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.85 g, 12h). Siscia mint. Issue 1, AD 262-3. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / IO CANTAB, Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre. MIR 36, 1395i; RIC V (sole reign) 573; Cunetio –. VF, gray brown surfaces, minor porosity.
Ex Glendining’s (7 March 1990), lot 817 (part of).
See introductory chapter on Religion and divine protection for discussion of the association of Jupiter with this reverse legend.