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442, Lot: 477. Estimate $150.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ trial striking from antoninianus dies (23mm, 9.22 g, 6h). Siscia mint. Issue 3, AD 266. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and sceptre. As MIR 36, 1441a; as RIC V (sole reign) 575; as Cunetio 1821. Good Fine, brown surfaces, minor roughness.


Bought from Spink, 1992. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular C.4 (May 1992), no. 2464.

This is clearly not just an accidentally overweight antoninianus. At approximately triple the normal weight, and on a flan of extremely base alloy, if indeed it contains any silver at all, it must be regarded as a test striking to assess dies.