442, Lot: 476. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Aureus (21mm, 3.94 g, 12h). Siscia mint. Issue 3, AD 266. IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG GR, laureate head right / FIDES M[IL]ITVM, Fides standing left, holding two standards. MIR 36, 1434b; RIC V –; Calicó 3499 var. (obv. legend). Near VF, holed and plugged. Extremely rare, only one piece noted by MIR (in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin).

Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 823.

The Berlin specimen, illustrated in MIR, is from the same reverse die as this coin, and appears to have been pierced in exactly the same place, just above the head of Fides.