Unpublished Quinarius

442, Lot: 466. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Quinarius (14mm, 1.11 g, 11h). Siscia mint. Issue 2, AD 264-5. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVG, Pax seated left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre. MIR 36, –; RIC V –. Good Fine, gray brown surfaces. Mimor reverse deposits. Very rare.

Ex Kūnker 115 (25 September 2006), lot 738.

This quinarius seems not to have been recorded previously .I have attributed it to the Siscia mint, as the only recorded antoninianus issue of Gallienus depicting Pax seated is MIR 1411, RIC (sole reign) 577. MIR does not record any fractional denominations from this mint at all.