Unpublished Denarius

442, Lot: 204. Estimate $400. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (18mm, 2.88 g, 12h). Rome mint. 8th issue, AD 263-264/5. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / INDVLGENT AVG, Indulgentia seated left, holding branch and sceptre. MIR 36, – (rev. as quinarius 540q); RIC V –. EF, brown patina, spots of roughness.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 170 (13 October 2008), lot 2757 (incorrectly catalogued as a quinarius).

This coin is quite clearly a denarius, not a quinarius, on the basis of its weight and module. MIR does not list any denarii at all in issue 8, and this coin seems to be of a previously unknown type.