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442, Lot: 242. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $3105. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Heavy Aureus (19mm, 5.18 g, 1h). Rome mint. 9th issue, AD 265+. GALLIENVS P F AVG, head left, crowned with reeds / VICTORIA AVG, emperor standing left, holding globe and sceptre, crowned by Victory, standing left behind him. MIR 36, 692b; RIC V (sole reign) 81; Calicó 3614. VF, wavy flan, scratches, holed, edge marks.


Ex Christie’s New York (13 September 1990), lot 52.

The significance of the crown of reeds has been debated at length in published works. It would seem to be associated with Gallienus’s initiation into the Eleusinian mysteries, but there is still no firm agreement.