442, Lot: 533. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of six (6) coins. 533a Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.44 g, 12h). Contemporary cast forgery. IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CONSERVA, Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre. As MIR 36, 24v; as RIC V (joint reign) 143; I. A. Carradice, “The Market Deeping, Lincs., hoard” in Coin Hoards in Roman Britiain IV (1984), p. 60 and p. 62, plate A. Near VF, porous gray brown surfaces.

Ex Glendining’s (30 September 1998), lot 139 (part of); Deeping St. James (Market Deeping), Lincolnshire, Hoard (1980) [IRBCH 699].

The fabric appears by both sight and sound to contain a substantial proportion of lead.

533b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.77 g, 5h). Contemporary struck forgery. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre. As MIR 36, 351e; as RIC V (sole reign) 256 var. (officina marked). VF, brown surfaces.

Bought from Lennox Gallery, 1996.

Stylistically this is clearly an unofficial striking.on a very debased metal flan.

533c Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.51 g, 7.5h). Contemporary struck forgery. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / ϽIW[ ]CIXIIIAVG, figure standing left, holding long vertical sceptre? and cornucopiae (probably intended to be Felicitas with long caduceus and cornucopiae). VF, excellent silver quality.

Ex Elsen 70 (15 June 2002), lot 611.

A very crudely executed piece, but curiously with a fully literate obverse legend and a completely garbled reverse one.

533d Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (18mm, 3.18 g, 9h). Contemporary struck forgery. IMP G GALLENIVS (sic), radiate head right / [ ]AII, Fides standing left, holding standard in each hand. Good VF, glossy brown surfaces. Barbarous.

Ex I. Vecchi 13 (4 September 1998), lot 1177.

533e Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (19mm, 7.74 g, 1h). Contemporary struck forgery. [GA]LLIENVS AV[G], radiate head right / VIRTVS AVGV?, helmeted figure standing left, holding uncertain attribute and resting left hand on shield. VF, green patina. Struck on a very thick flan measuring 3 mm.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 2286.

533f Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Antoninianus (19mm, 2.22 g, 7h). Contemporary struck forgery. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / VICT[ORI]A GERM, Victory standing right, holding wreath and palm; captive at her feet. MIR 36, Tafel 138, Zf 119 (same dies). Fine, brown surfaces.

Ex Davissons FPL (1995, no. 1), no 240.

The reverse imitates a type proper to Gallienus, but with Victory to right instead of left.

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