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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 24639920, member: 42034&quot;]Certainly. Actually I got it in 2019: not exactly recently?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567812[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Claudius II Gothicus, 268-270.</b> Denarius (Orichalcum, 17 mm, 3.64 g, 12 h), Mediolanum, September 268-mid 269. IMP CLAVDIVS AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Claudius II to left, seen from behind. <i>Rev.</i> MARTI PROPVGNATORI Mars advancing right, holding transverse spear in his right hand and shield in his left. Cohen -. RIC -. RIC V online -. Unpublished and unique. A wonderful piece, beautifully struck on a very broad flan and with superb portrait of fine style. Extremely fine.</p><p>Leu Numismatik Auction #4, 25 May, 2019 lot# 721, realized 4,600 Swiss Fr. not incl commission.</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo and writeup by Leu.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got the Claudius-II, not because I like or need a Claudius-II but because I like to document currency debasements in general.&nbsp; Thus I also have coins from the Monedas Feble crisis in Latin America (1830-1852) and have been after German hyper-inflationary (1923) coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I like the Roman Military Crisis of the 3rd century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just saw that one coin I tried to get but lost from that auction was a beautiful sestersius-sized (AE34) Provincial of Gallienus, my namesake.&nbsp; My avatar is not a Gallienus as I really don&#039;t have any decent coin of him.&nbsp; Had I gotten that piece, it would undoubtedly been my avatar but there are always limits as to what one can buy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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