Aerial City-View of Nicaea

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 732. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Octassarion (7.01 g, 1h). Nicaea mint. POU LI EG GALLIHNOC CEB, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / APICTW/MEGI across fields, NIKAIEWN in exergue, city walls of Nicaea viewed from aerial perspective. Weiser, Nicaea 255 var. (reverse legend); RG 846 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. Near EF, green patina. Exceptional for issue.