442, Lot: 521. Estimate $75. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 4.38 g, 7h). Samosata mint. Issue 3, AD 260. IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVG, emperor standing left, holding spear, receiving wreath from Victory, standing right, holding palm branch, wreath in upper field; pellet in exergue. MIR 36, 1702b var. (pellet in exergue); RIC V (joint reign) 450 var. (wreath and pellet on rev.); Cunetio 1877 and note on p. 170. VF, some silvering, worn through on highest points.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1984.

RIC records coins of this type with either the wreath in the upper field or the pellet in the exergue, but not both. Cunetio note 1877 records that one coin in the hoard had both (illustrated on Plate 21). MIR has a note below Tabelle 51 – Fūr Punktsetzungen Av und Rv siehe die Kommentare (for placing of pellets on the obverse and reverse see the Commentary) - but a careful reading of the section on the Samosata mint (pp. 132-5) has failed to find any mention of this particular variant..