Ex Mabbott Collection
442, Lot: 168. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Quinarius (15mm, 1.19 g, 11h). Rome mint. 6th issue, AD 260-261. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / VESTA, Vesta seated left, holding patera and sceptre. MIR 36, 432t, recte 418t; RIC V (sole reign) 45; King 21g (
this coin). VF.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica E (4 April 1995), lot 3157; Kunst und Münzen XXIX (20 May 1993), lot 811; Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (Part II, H. Schulman, 27 October 1969), lot 4482.
MIR has coins of this type erroneously placed in Table 11 as 432t, which would have obverse legend CORNELIA SALONINA AVG. The illustration on Tafel 126 has SALONINA AVG, however.