Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG
> Auction 158 Auction date: 28 September 2009

Lot number: 740
Price realized: 1,750 EUR (approx. 2,571 USD as of the auction date) + buyer's fees.

Gallienus, 253-268. AV-Aureus, 264-267 AD, Rome, 9th. Officina; 5,83 g.

GALLIENAE-AVGUSTAE, head left wearing wreath of corn.
VBIQUE PAX, Victory in biga right.

Cohen 1015; RIC 74. Sole Reign.

Very rare.

Notes: According to Alföldi the corn wreath on the obverse
denotes a merging of the emperor with the deity Demeter.
Alföldi also notes that it could be a wreath of reeds
denoting a victory on a lake or sea.

Estimate: 1250 EUR

Courtesy of Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH, Feb. 2010.