442, Lot: 376. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (22mm, 2.58 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 2(2), AD 260-1. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, holding spear over left shoulder / LEG III ITAL VI P VI F, stork standing right. MIR 36, – [999s]; RIC V (joint reign) 339; Cunetio –. VF, brown surfaces, some porosity. Rare bust type.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 114 (4 March 2002), lot 392; Aufhäuser 11 (22 March 1995), lot 341.

MIR does not record a coin of this type in Tabelle 29, but the photograph labelled 999o on Tafel 78 is of a coin of type 999s (wreath-ties in position 2).