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E-Sale 96  5 May 2022
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Lot 1286

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 75 GBP
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Gallienus AR Antoninianus. Mediolanum, AD 259-260. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / VICTORIA AVGG, Victory facing, head to left, holding unwound diadem; shield on either side by feet. RIC V.1 405 (joint reign) var. (bust type); MIR 921g; RSC 1148 var. (bust type). 3.37g, 25mm, 12h.

About Good Very Fine; flan crack at 3h, areas of flatness. Extremely Rare; only one noted by MIR (in a private collection).

This coin published in Coins of the Valerianic Dynasty (AD 253-268) and Contemporary Issues (Classical Numismatic Group LLC, 2019);
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 61, 22 August 2019, lot 907;
Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection, Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 442, 17 April 2019, lot 317 (part of);
Ex Glendining's, 12 December 1990, lot 109 (part of).

For this issue unclothed busts to the right are rare, whereas those to the left are common.
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