Diva Mariniana Quinarius

442, Lot: 295. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Quinarius (15mm, 1.29 g, 1h). Viminacium mint. DIVAE MARINIANAE, veiled and draped bust right / CONSECRATIO, peacock flying right, carrying empress. MIR 36, 850c; RIC V 8 corr. (peacock to right) var. (bust not diademed; Rome); King 6. VF, some roughness. Extremely rare, only two noted by King (in Brussels and Paris).

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica A (27 February 1991), lot 1936.