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Electronic Auction 442  17 Apr 2019
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Lot 641

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 110 USD
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THRACE, Coela. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (25mm, 10.39 g, 9h). IMP GA[LL]IHN, laureate head right / AEL MVNI COELAN, Genius standing facing, head left, holding statuette and cornucopia; c/m: Δ in left field, O in right. BMC 13; for c/m: Howgego 786. VF, green patina, cleaning marks. Rare.

Ex Schenk-Behrens 75 (4 May 1998), lot 525.

Howgego (p. 58): "The BO and ΔO on coins of Gallienus from Coela in the Thracian Chersonese may refer to obols." The current piece would therefore have been valued at 4 obols.
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