Hi,
My former post graduate research supervisor, John
Casey, died earlier this year. Recently
his teaching
collection of coins came up for sale. I remembered many of them from the undergraduate teaching room and wanted some to remind me of him. I was sadly out bid on many of them but one little lot of twelve coins I was able to secure and included in that lot was a coin
type I have been looking for an affordable example of for a long time.
The coin in question is an anonymous
double sestertius from the
mint of
Rome during the late sole reign of Gallisnus. The
obverse features a
radiate head of
Genius with the obvious features of
Gallienus,
legend GENIUS P R; the
reverse INT VRB around a large SC all within a
wreath (Goebl 702h).
RIC places the issue as the interregnum coinage after the reign of
Aurelian.
Not the best preserved example but a reminder of some
good times with my mentor.
Regards,
Mauseus
