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Unique Medallion

442, Lot: 299. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus, with Salonina. AD 253-268. Æ Medallion (32mm, 15.98 g, 12h). Viminacium mint(?). _ _ _ [ ] GALLIENVS P AVG, laureate head right / CONCORDIA AVGG, laureate and cuirassed bust of Gallienus to right, facing diademed and draped bust of Salonina to left. N. M. McQ. Holmes, “Were ‘Non-Local’ Valerianic Medallions Struck at Viminacium?,” in NC 2017, fig. 4 (this coin), otherwise unpublished. VF, green patina, minor roughness. Overstruck on an uncertain issue. Apparently unique.


Ex Roma E-Sale 24 (30 January 2016), lot 636; Numismatica Ars Classica 40 (16 May 2007), lot 813.

This medallion appears to have been completely unknown prior to its appearance on the market in 2007. I have placed it in the Viminacium section of this catalogue on the basis of the obverse legend, (GALLIENVS P AVG), although the first part of the legend is illegible owing to corrosion. I published the medallion, along with a discussion of the whole question of the attribution of medallions to Viminacium, in a paper in Numismatic Chronicle (Holmes 2017a).