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442, Lot: 498. Estimate $100.
Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 498a Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (22mm, 2.90 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Issue 4, AD 256-257. P LIC COR VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust right / PRINCIPI IVBENTVTIS (sic), prince standing left, holding baton and spear. MIR 36, 1597d var. (rev. legend); RIC V 51 var. (same); Cunetio –. Near VF, low silver content, rough surfaces.

Bought from Baldwin's, 1981.

The use of B instead of V in the reverse legend is an example of an attested occasional practice at the time.

498b Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.91 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Issue 5, AD 257-258. P LIC COR VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust right / VICTORIA PART, Victory standing right, presenting wreath to prince, standing left, holding spear. MIR 36, 1604d; RIC V 54; Cunetio 833. VF, brown surfaces.

Bought from Galata, 1979.

498c Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.43 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Issue 5, AD 258-260. P COR SAL VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust right / DII NVTRITORES, Jupiter standing left, holding sceptre, presenting Victory to prince, standing right, holding spear. MIR 36, 1606e; RIC V 35; Cunetio 841. Near VF, low silver content.

Bought from Stanley Gibbons, 1977.

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