Unique and Unpublished
841. Gallienus AV Reduced Aureus or Quinarius. Rome, AD 259. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust to right / P M TR P [VII] COS P P, Minerva standing to right, wearing helmet, brandishing spear in right hand and holding shield in left. RIC V.1 -; C. -; MIR - cf. 1419 for types; Biaggi -; Calicó -. 1.99g, 20mm, 6h. Mint State. Apparently unique and unpublished in gold.
6,000
From a private European collection; Ex Tauler & Fau, Auction 70, 24 November 2020, lot 121; Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 257, 15 October 2018, lot 944; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XV, 5 April 2018, lot 611 (hammer: £8,000).
Extremely Rare
842. Gallienus BI Antoninianus. Mediolanum, AD 260-268. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / VOTIS X ET XX in four lines within wreath. RIC V.1 599B (sole reign, Siscia); MIR 1063c; RSC 1355. 3.46g, 20mm, 12h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no others offered at auction in the preceding 20 years.
250
From the collection of Z.P., Austria, collector’s ticket included.
Saloninus as Augustus
843. Saloninus AR Antoninianus. Colonia Agrippinensis, July-August AD 261. IMP SALON VALER[IANVS] AVG, radiate and draped bust to right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes advancing to left, holding flower and raising skirt. RIC V.1 14 corr. (Spes to right); MIR 36, 917f; Stevenage 526. 2.32g, 22mm, 11h. Near Extremely Fine; usual flat striking on rev. Extremely Rare.
750
From the collection of Italo Vecchi. Publius Licinius Cornelius Saloninus Valerianus was the younger son of Gallienus and received the title Caesar when his brother, Valerian II, died in 258. After the usurpation of the command of the Rhine legions by Postumus in 260, Saloninus, who resided in Cologne, was surrounded and besieged. Gallienus, who was fully engaged elsewhere and could do nothing to save his son, prompted Saloninus’s troops, in their desperation, to proclaim him emperor, but he was captured and executed by Postumus soon after the fall of Cologne in the summer of 261. The great rarity of the issues of Saloninus with the title of Augustus is presumably connected with the confiscation and melting down of such pieces by Postumus.
293