Unpublished Early Issue from Serdica

225, Lot: 502. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.58 g, 6h). Serdica mint, 2nd officina. 1st emission, 1st phase, summer AD 271. IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate head right / IOVI ST ATORI, Jupiter standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; -/S//SERD. RIC V 267 var. (bust type); BN -; Venèra -; cf. MIR 47, 241/2 (for type); Rohde -. Good VF, dark green surfaces. Very rare first emission and bust type. Apparently unpublished.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Gorny 138 (7 March 2005), lot 2344.