Unpublished Aureus

442, Lot: 286. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 3.56 g, 6h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2c. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, emperor standing left, foot on helmet, holding globe and sceptre. MIR 36, –; RIC V (joint reign) 305 var. (bust type; Milan); Calicó –. Good VF, polished, edge marks, small scratch. Unpublished, apparently unique.

Ex Roma E-Sale 21 (31 October 2015), lot 862.

MIR does not record this reverse type at all. MIR 830 has the figure, there described as Mars, holding globe and spear, but on this coin the attribute is definitely a sceptre, without point at either end. RIC describes the figure, there identified as the emperor, holding a sceptre, but with a different obverse bust. The reference is to Cohen 1308, without stating the location of the coin.