Unrecorded Reverse

442, Lot: 323. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.75 g, 7h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(1), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, helmeted, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield / [? VIRT GA]LLIENI AVG, Hercules standing right, holding club set on rock [and lion-skin ?]. MIR 36, – (rev. type as 963, but legend as 966); RIC V –. VF, porosity, red deposits.

Bought from David Miller, 1999.

This combination of reverse legend and design appears to be completely unrecorded.