442, Lot: 680. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 680a IONIA, Ephesus. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26.5mm, 7.24 g, 7h). AVT K ΠO ΛIKI ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate and draped bust right / EΦECIΩN Δ [NEOK]OPΩN, Artemis standing right, holding bow and drawing arrow from quiver; hound at her side. Karwiese 1089. Good VF, green and red-brown patina, smoothing.

Bought from Manton Associates, 1993.

680b IONIA, Ephesus. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (27.5mm, 8.09 g, 6.5h). Struck AD 253-268. AVT · K · ΠO · ΛIKIN · ΓAΛΛIHNOC ·, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / EΦ-ECIΩN · Γ · NEO, KOPON in exergue, Androklos facing right, wielding spear at boar standing left; hound at his side. Karwiese 1136 (this coin cited). VF, brown patina, some roughness. Very rare.

Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 636; G. Hirsch 171 (25 September 1991), lot 1273.

680c IONIA, Ephesus. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (29mm, 9.26 g, 6h). · CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONH · CЄBA ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / EΦECIΩN Γ N-EΩ-KOPON, Artemis standing facing, head right, raising right hand and holding bow; tree behind her, hound at her side. Karwiese 1184 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, brown patina, light roughness. Rare.

Ex “Bavarian Collection” (Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI, 18 March 1993), lot 1141.

On this coin Salonina is given the title “Chrysogone” (begotten of gold). For a discussion of this, and of Salonina’s ancestry, see Bray (1997), pp. 30-31.

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