442, Lot: 656. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of four (4) coins. 656a BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Valerian I, with Gallienus and Valerian II Caesar. AD 253-260. Æ (23.5mm, 7.9 g, 7h). Struck AD 256-258. AVT / OYAΛЄPI/ANOC ΓAΛΛI/HNOC OYAΛЄPI[A]/NOC KAIC above, CЄBB below, busts of Gallienus to right and Valerian I to left, with Valerian II to right between them / [MЄΓIC]TΩN API[CTΩN], NIKAIЄΩN in exergue, three prize urns containing palms. BMC 150; SNG von Aulock 721. Near VF, dark green patina.

Bought from Seaby, 1991.

656b BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (25mm, 9.89 g, 7h). [ΠOY] ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [NIKAI]EΩN, radiate figure standing left, holding vertical spear or scepter, facing figure standing right, holding vertical spear or scepter; a third (female?) figure standing left. RG 37; SNG von Aulock 722-3; cf. BMC 156 (for rev. for Salonina). Near VF, brown patina, some roughness and light scratches.

Ex Malloy XLII (22 March 1996), lot 364.

RG identifies the central figure as Gallienus, that on the left as Saloninus, and the draped figure of the right as either a priest or Salonina.

656c BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (21.5mm, 6.87 g, 1.5h). [ΠOY ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHN CEB?], radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / NIKAIE/Ω[N] in exergue, Dionysos, seated on chariot drawn by four elephants, pouring from kantharos [and holding thyrsos]. Cf. RG 836; Lindgren & Kovacs A156B. Near VF, earthen green patina, edge irregularity.

Ex Malloy LXX (1 December 2003), lot 320.

656d BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (25mm, 7.03 g, 7h). KOPNH CA-ΛΩNEI[NA], diademed and draped bust right / NIKAIEΩN in exergue, walled enclosure with gateway. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, green and brown patina. Evidently a rare type for Salonina.

Ex Van der Dussen 24 (1 June 1995), lot 2730.

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