442, Lot: 644. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of four (4) coins.
644a THRACE, Serdica. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 8.96 g, 7h). AVT K ΓAΛ-ΛIHNOC[EB?], laureate and cuirassed bust right / OVAΠIAC CEPΔIKHC, river-god Oiskos reclining left, holding reeds. H&J 12.46.32.1 (R5); Ruzicka 481 var. (arrangement of rev. legend). VF, green patina.
Ex I. Vecchi 15 (15 June 1999), lot 617. 644b THRACE, Serdica. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (25mm, 11.07 g, 6.5h). AVT K ΓAΛ-ΛIHNOC, laureate and draped bust right / OVAΠIAC CEPΔIK, H C in exergue, emperor on horseback to right, raising right hand. Cf. H&J 12.46.34.1 (R8); Ruzicka –. VF, green patina, roughness and cleaning scratches. Very rare type.
Ex Mūnz Zentrum 159 (4 May 2011), lot 293. 644c THRACE, Serdica. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (26mm, 18.78 g, 1h). AVT K [ΓAΛ-ΛI]HNOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield / OVAΠIAC CEPΔIKH, C in exergue, three naked female figures, the middle one kneeling to right, the outer two standing face to face. H&J 12.46.26.3 (R7); Ruzicka 489. VF, green-brown patina, rough in areas. Rare type.
Ex Kūnker 89 (8 March 2004), lot 2567. 644d THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ Tetrassarion (24mm, 10.41 g, 12h). AVT K ΠO Λ ΓAΛΛHNOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [KO]INON ΘεCCAΛΩN, Athena advancing right, brandishing spear and holding shield; Δ in left field. BCD Thessaly II 991.2. Near VF, green patina.
Bought from Baldwin’s, 1994. . .