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442, Lot: 691. Estimate $200.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Aphrodisias. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (31.5mm, 16.67 g, 6h). Publius Anton. Kelsos, magistrate. AY KAI ΠO ΓAΛΛ-IHNOC, radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield; shield decorated with horseman trampling on fallen enemy / ЄΠI · NЄO · ΠV ANT KЄΛCOV IΠΠI, AΦPOΔICIЄΩN in exergue, emperor on horseback to right, raising right arm. MacDonald Type 221 (O259/R474); SNG von Aulock 2471 (same dies). Good VF, green-brown surfaces, some roughness on reverse. Extremely rare, only two cited by MacDonald, both in public collections (the von Aulock coin now in the British Museum, the other in the Bibliothèque Nationale).


Ex Mūnzen und Medaillen GmbH 13 (9 October 2003), lot 405 (hammer of €660).