AURELIAN. 270-275 AD. Aureus (21mm, 4.11 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, 127q; BN 424-425 (same dies); cf. Cohen 269; Calicó 4050b (this coin). EF, minor porosity.
Ex A Friend of the Romans Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 92, 22 November 2002), lot 245; Rauch 47 (4-5 November 1991), lot 601.
