Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1693. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Sestertius (17.84 g, 7h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, AD 256. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Emperor standing left, raising kneeling figure and holding sceptre. RIC V 236; MIR 36, 111n; Banti 55. VF, brown and green patina, slight die shift on reverse. Struck on an especially round flan for this issue.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.