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442, Lot: 283. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 283a Valerian I. AD 253-260. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.09 g, 12h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2b. IMP VALERIANVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TEMPORVM FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 810d; RIC V 259 (Milan); Cunetio 768. VF, porosity, deposits.

Bought from Byzantium, 2000.

283b Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (23.5mm, 4.07 g, 6h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2c. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 822o var. (rev. legend); RIC V (joint reign) 396 var. (bust type; Milan); Cunetio –. Near EF. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Sotheby’s (22 March 1990), lot 107 (part of).

MIR does not record the reading SECVLI, although the coin illustrated as 822c does have this spelling. RIC records both versions.

283c Gallienus. AD 253-268. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.23 g, 12h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2c. IMP GALLIENVS P AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae. MIR 36, – [822q]; RIC V (joint reign) 396 var. (bust type; Milan); Cunetio –. Near EF, toned, minor green deposits.

Bought from Baldwin's, 1992.

MIR does not record this bust type with this reverse.

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