442, Lot: 482. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 4.15 g, 1h). Siscia mint. Issue 12, AD 267-8. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / DIANAE CONS AVG, stag standing left; S I in exergue. MIR 36, 1517b (same dies as illustration); RIC V –; Cunetio –. VF, some silvering, deeply toned. Extremely rare, only one piece noted by MIR.

Ex Gemini XI (12 January 2014), lot 505.

It is unclear why just a few of the ‘animal’ reverse types from the final issue at Rome were copied at Siscia. All strikings are excessively rare.