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442, Lot: 698. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 698a LYDIA, Gordus-Julia. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (24mm, 4.87 g, 6h). Phoibos, magistrate. [AVT K Π] ΛI ΓAΛΛIHNO, laureate and draped bust right / ЄΠ · ΦOIBOV · IOVΛ ΓOPΔHNΩN, Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. BMC 48. Near VF, green patina, some roughness.

Ex Naville Numismatics 16 (12 July 2015), lot 341.

698b LYDIA, Hypaepa. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (28mm, 7.98 g, 6h). Kandianos, strategos. CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONE · CЄB ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / · VΠAIΠHNO[N] · EΠI CTP/ KONΔIANOV, cult statue of Artemis Anaitis facing. BMC 71. VF, brown surfaces.

Bought from Baldwin's, 1991.

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.

698c LYDIA, Magnesia ad Sipylum. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (28mm, 7.8 g, 6h). Aurelius Fronto, strategos. ΛIKIN ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [ЄΠI] CTP AVP [Φ]PONTΩNOC, [M]AΓNHT/ON CI in exergue, prize urn with two palm branches; inscription [ЄNMONIΔЄA] on urn. BMC 95; SNG Mūnchen 295 (same obv. die). VF, dark green patina, rough surfaces.

Ex Mūnzen und Medaillen GmbH 15 (21 October 2004), lot 780.

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