Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1070. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALLIENUS. 253-268 AD. Æ Sestertius (15.01 gm, 1h). Rome mint. Struck 254-256 AD. IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / LIBERALITAS AVGG, S C across field, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus in extended right hand and cradling cornucopiae in left arm. RIC V 221 (Joint Reign); cf. MIR 36, 66s; Banti 30; Hunter 36 (Joint Reign; same obverse die); Cohen 572. Good VF, mottled dark olive and red patina. A bold portrait on an exceptional flan. ($1000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Peus 366 (25 October 2000), lot 1478; Münzen und Medaillen 76 (19-20 September 1991), lot 906.