AURELIAN. 270-275 AD. Aureus (21mm, 4.70 g, 6h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 3rd emission, 271-272 AD. IMP C L DOM AVRELIANVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, wearing aegis / V-IRTVS AVG, Mars advancing right, holding spear forward and trophy over left shoulder holding spear; at feet, bound captive seated right. RIC V 15 (Rome) and 182 (Siscia); MIR 47, 127p0 (8) = Calicó 4050 (this coin); cf. BN 424-435; cf. Cohen 269. Superb EF, an exceptionally fine-style portrait.
Ex Hess-Leu 49 (27-28 April 1971), lot 439; H. Osborne O'Hagan Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 July 1908), lot 663; H. Montagu Collection (Rollin & Feuerdant, 20-28 April 1896), lot 684.
