442, Lot: 232. Estimate $75. Sold for $138. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (18mm, 1.59 g, 5h). Rome mint. 9th issue, AD 265+. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, laureate head right / VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding bunch of grapes and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 664t; RIC V (sole reign) 358 var. (rev. legend). Near EF, green patina, flan crack.

Bought from Manton Associates, 1994.

The object held in the figure’s right hand is here described as a bunch of grapes, as in RIC. See introductory section ‘notes on common types’ for discussion of this.