Unrecorded Quinarius

442, Lot: 448. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Quinarius (15.5mm, 1.48 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 6, AD 266. GALLIENVS AVG, head right, wearing lion-skin head-dress / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, raising both hands; altar at feet, to left. MIR 36, – ([1261r] var. (bust type); RIC V –. VF, traces of silvering, minor roughness. Exceptional. Extremely rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 142 (10 October 2005), lot 2854.

MIR records only one quinarius type in this series (1254r, with reverse FELICIT AVG), and this ‘Hercules’ bust type is not recorded for any denomination in this series.