Extremely Rare Issue of Saloninus as Augustus

Description

Triton XIII, Lot: 340. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Saloninus. AD 260. AR Antoninianus (3.01 g, 6h). Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. 2nd emission, AD 258-259. IMP SALON VALERIANVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes advancing left, lifting dress with left hand and holding flower in right. RIC V 14; MIR 36, 917f; RSC 94. VF, toned, minor hairline flan crack. Extremely rare.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Sternberg XIII (17 November 1983), lot 1068.