Unpublished Denarius

442, Lot: 129. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (17.5mm, 3.06 g, 6h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVGG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre. MIR 36, –; RIC V –. Good VF, brown surfaces, spot of encrustation.

Bought from David Miller 1999.

The obverse belongs to the sole reign denarius series, e.g. MIR 408p and 421p, but none is known with Pax reverse, so a die-sinking error of AVGG for AVG seems unlikely. However, MIR does not list any denarii at all in the joint reign issues 1-5. This coin is therefore an anomaly, and its position in the series is as yet unconfirmed.