Unrecorded Denarius

442, Lot: 447. Estimate $150. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (16mm, 3.32 g, 12h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Issue 6, AD 266. GALLIENVS P F AVG, laureate head right / FELICIT AVG, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and sceptre. MIR 36, – (rev. as 1254); RIC V –. VF, brown surfaces, a touch of roughness.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica B (25 February 1992), lot 2171.

The reverse places this coin in Issue 6 at Milan, but no denarii are recorded for this issue at all. MIR 1254r and RIC (sole reign) 542 record quinarii with this reverse, but with different obverse legend and bust type.