Unique and Important Coin of Philippi

442, Lot: 633. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Philippi. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (24.5mm, 10.46 g, 7h). IMP ECN GALLIEN AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SPES P-V-BLICA, city goddess seated left, holding patera and cornucopia; R/P/C in left field, P in right field. M. Amandry, “Le monnayage de la Res Publica Coloniae Philippensium: Nouvelles données,” FIDES, p. 496 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, green-brown patina, light roughness. Extremely rare and possibly unique.

Ex Dix Noonan Webb A8 (5 October 2009), lot 5730.

The appearance of this coin served to prove Michel Amandry’s previously published theory that a series of coins struck at Phillipi for the deified Augustus, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius had been issued during the reign of Gallienus. The reverse of this coin was struck from the same die as several coins of Divus Marcus Aurelius. A second specimen of this coin, from the same dies, was offered in the Kölner Münzkabinett E-Auction 3, 25 June 2017, lot 393, but was not sold.