The Pythian Games

442, Lot: 706. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tripolis. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (34.5mm, 17.85 g, 6h). AV K ΠO ΛIKIN · ΓAΛΛIHNOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TPIΠO-ΛITЄITΩN, wreath, within which is ΛH/TωЄIA/ ΠVΘI/A. SNG von Aulock 3326 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 754 (same dies). Good VF, brown surfaces, flan flaw on reverse. A pleasing Pythian Games issue.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 814.