442, Lot: 22. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian I. AD 253-260. Ӕ Sestertius (27.5mm, 21.86 g, 11h). Rome mint. 1st issue, AD 253-254. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVGG, Salus standing left, holding sceptre in left hand and feeding from patera a snake rising from an altar; S C across field. MIR 36, 29g; RIC V 173 var. (obv. legend); Banti 21 var. (obv. legend). Good VF, brown patina. Extremely rare, only one specimen noted by MIR (in the KMH [Vienna]).

Bought from Seaby, 1985. Ex Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 800 (May 1985), no. C166.