161 162 161. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.93 g, 6h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVM AVG SENATVS, radiate and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVG, Pax standing facing,head left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre; T in left field. MIR 36, 401r (same dies as illustration); RIC V –. VF, brown patina, flan crack. Extremely rare, only one specimen noted by MIR (in the BM). ($500) Ex Yves Günzenreiner Collection (Leu Numismatik 1, 25 October 2017), lot 334 (900 CHF). This obverse legend is unusual, being translated as ‘the Senate [for] the emperor Gallienus’. It is more appropriately found, along with the related legend GALLIENVM AVG P R (the Roman people for the emperor Gallienus) on copper alloy offstrikes of gold multiples acknowledging imperial achievements, e.g. OB CONSERVATIONEM SALVTIS, or OB LIBERTATEM RECEPTAM (see MIR 563-5 and 567-8).
162. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (19.5mm, 2.35 g, 6h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate head right / VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing facing, head right, holding club on ground with right hand and bow and lion-skin with left. MIR 36, 405o; RIC V (sole reign) 678 (Asia mint). VF, green patina. Extremely rare, only one specimen noted by MIR (in a private collection). ($200) Bought from Manton Associates, 1993.
163. Gallienus. AD 253-268. AV Binio (21mm, 2.76 g, 7h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right / IOVI VLTORI, Jupiter walking left, head turned back, brandishing thunderbolt; cloak trails out behind; S in left field. MIR 36, 410c; RIC V (sole reign) 52; Calicó 3528. VF, wavy flan, edge nick. Very rare. ($2000) Ex Elsen 65 (17 March 2001), lot 690. This coin is discussed and illustrated by Doyen 1987. It is from the same obverse die as a specimen in the collections of the British Museum, London, and the specimen illustrated as MIR 410c (Perret collection [Bourgey 1958] = Leu 22 [1979], lot 341). Doyen knew of eight examples of this coin, with widely varying weights, this being the lightest. All were struck from different reverse dies, indicating that the dies were used mainly in the striking of antoniniani.
164 165 164. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Ӕ As (23mm, 7.89 g, 12h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre; S C across field. MIR 36, 411w; RIC V (sole reign) 428 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, green patina, light smoothing. ($150) Ex I. Vecchi 6 (9 June 1997), lot 1242.
Unpublished Denarius 165. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Denarius (18.5mm, 2.24 g, 10h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVG III, Victory walking left, holding wreat and palm. MIR 36, – (as 413, no denarii recorded), RIC V –. EF, minor green deposits, flan flaws. ($300) Ex Solidus 20 (21 October 2017), lot 199.
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