Unique – MIR Plate Coin

442, Lot: 501. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 2.89 g, 7h). Antioch mint. Issue 5, AD 257-260. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / PIETAS AVGG, diademed and draped bust of Salonina right. MIR 36, 1606Ab (this coin illustrated); RIC V –; Cunetio –. VF, rough surfaces, some silvering, pit before bust of Salonina. Unique, the only recorded example.

Ex I. Vecchi 5 (5 March 1997), lot 763.

The note in the Vecchi auction catalogue stated: ‘This dynastic issue,of which there is recorded one other specimen, now lost, in the names of Valerian and Gallienus (PRINCIPI IVBENTVTIS, bare-headed bust r.), Bonham-Vecchi sale 7 (1982), 431, records the celebration at the Syrian capital of the first quinquennium and the consulships (IV and III respectively) of the emperors.’