Rare Commemorative for Galerius Antoninus

CNG 111, Lot: 506. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Uncertain. Diva Faustina Senior, with Galerius Antoninus. Died AD 140/1 and before AD 138, respectively. Æ (27mm, 12.15 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 147. Veiled and draped bust of Diva Faustina Senior right / Bareheaded and draped bust of Galerius Antoninus right. Overbeck, Galerius 14; Parks 22; RPC IV Online 8345. Good VF, dark green and reddish-brown patina, smoothed. Rare.

Ex Lanz 109 (27 May 2002), lot 486 (since smoothed).