Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 401 - US$2500 

Galerius Antoninus, Son of Antoninus Pius and Faustina I. Bronze 27 
mm (12.17 gm). . 
QEA FAYCTEINA, draped bust of Faustina rightt / 
M GALERIOC ANTWNINOC AYTOKPATOPOC ANTWNINOY YIOC, bare-headed, draped bust of Galerius Antoninus right. 
Cohen 2 (150 Fr.). Some minor 
smoothing in right reverse field but devices untouched. Fine 
plus/very fine. 

This issue displays the only surviving portrait of Antoninus Pius’ 
son Galerius Antoninus, who died before Pius came to power and whose 
epitaph from Hadrian’s Mausoleum has also come down to us, CIL VI 
989. The style of this provincial issue suggests that its dies must 
have been cut by engravers of the mint of Rome. 
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  ... Lot 401 sold for high bid of $2500 [ $2875, or approx 2222.375 EUR, 1466.25 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) and
                         Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com)