442, Lot: 873. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Time of Valerian I and Gallienus. AD 253-260. PB seal from a coin sack (37mm, 30.84 g). A seal from a coin sack bearing the design of a Cologne mint light aureus (MIR 891f, possibly from the same die as the illustrated specimen): VICT GERMANICA, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm. Tan-brown patina. Intact.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 2703.

This would have been used to seal the tie-cord on a sack of coins being transported from the mint, probably to a military unit.