442, Lot: 481. Estimate $75. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of two (2) coins. 481a Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Antoninianus (19mm, 2.24 g, 7h). Siscia mint. Issue 8, AD 267-8. [SALON]INA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / PVDIC[ITIA AV]G, Pudicitia seated left, raising hand and holding long transverse sceptre; * in exergue. MIR 36, 1493r; RIC V (sole reign) 82 var. (officina mark); Cunetio –; Normanby 1493. Fine, some traces of silvering. Extremely rare, only one piece noted by MIR (the Normanby coin).

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH 854], no. 570 (part of).

MIR records just one specimen of this type, described as ‘NORMANBY 570’. The hoard included two specimens, in fact, and this coin is the other one. The type appears to be otherwise unrecorded with this officina mark.

481b Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.94 g, 1h). Siscia mint, 2nd officina. Issue 10, AD 267-8. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated left, raising hand and holding long transverse sceptre; * in left field, S in exergue. MIR 36, 1509r (this coin illustrated); RIC V (sole reign) 82 var. (officina mark); Cunetio 1865; Normanby 572 (this coin, illustrated). Fine, brown surfaces, mark before face.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1987. Ex Normanby, Lincolnshire, Hoard (1985) [IRBCH 854], no. 572.

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