442, Lot: 83. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of two (2) coins. 83a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.25 g, 11h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. 4th issue, AD 257. IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG G M, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVGG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and sceptre; T in left field. MIR 36, – [158h]; RIC V (joint reign) 157 var. (mint-mark in field); Cunetio 626 var. (bust type). VF, porous.

Bought from Spink, 1983.

83b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19mm, 3.27 g, 7h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 4th issue, AD 257. IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG G M, radiate and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVGG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and sceptre, left elbow leaning on column; V in left field. MIR 36, 173k var. (column on rev.); RIC V (joint reign) 157 var. (same); Cunetio 632 var. (same). Good VF, toned, porous.

Ex Glendining’s (18 October 1990), lot 308 (part of).

None of the reference works notes the presence of a column on the reverse, but the reverse of this coin is from the same die as the illustrated example of MIR 173i. However, the reverse with column is omitted from the Typologie plates. Strangely, it would appear that no-one has ever noticed this feature before.

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