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| Gemini, LLC > Auction VI | Auction date: 10 January 2010 |
| Lot number: 784 | |
| Lot description: Gallienus. 253-268 AD. AE 25-28, 14.46g. Phoenicia, Tyre. Obv: IMP C P LIC [GAL]LIENVS AVG Bust laureate, cuirassed right, seen from front, fold of cloak on front shoulder. Rx: COL TERO (sic, for TVRIORVM) ME - T Dido (?) standing left in galley sailing left, holding cornucopia (?) in left hand, reaching right hand towards smaller figure bending left in prow of galley, in stern a second small figure, advancing right and reaching right arm back towards Dido's left hand; below galley, on either side of the block of oars descending into the water, two murex shells. This type is known for Elagabalus and Salonina at Tyre, but may be unpublished for Gallienus: not in BM, Cohen, SNG Copenhagen, Lindgren, Berk photofile, CNG Research, CoinArchives, or Wildwinds. The same obverse die was also used with the reverses naked hero before four running stags (lot 785 below) and portable shrine of Astarte (Lindgren III, 1480). cf. BM 410 (Elagabalus) and CNG E-Auction 77, 12 November 2003, lot 93 (Salonina). Fine/VF. Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection. Dido is shown supervising the construction of Carthage on other Tyrian coins (see preceding lot), but we do not know for sure whether she is also meant in our galley type, since no text has survived to explain the incident depicted involving the two smaller figures on either side of her. That incident, in any case, seems to be independent of the ship that is carrying the three figures, since the ship is shown sailing right under Elagabalus (BM, pl. XLIV. 8), but sailing left for Gallienus and Salonina. Therefore under Elagabalus the small figure at left bends towards the stern of the ship while the figure at right runs towards the bow, whereas under Gallienus and Salonina the figure on left bends towards the bow and the figure on right runs towards the stern. Estimate: US$200 |  |
