442, Lot: 517. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian I. AD 253-260. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 3.37 g, 6h). Samosata mint. Issue 1, AD 255-256. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIAE / AVGG in exergue, Victory in biga to right. MIR 36, 1680c; RIC V 276 corr. (bust; Antioch); Calicó 3449 corr. (bust) and 3449a. Near VF, a few pits, flan a bit wavy. small scratch on face. Probably ex jewelry.

Ex Spink 87 (9 October 1991), lot 137.

RIC lists “laureate and draped” bust for this issue, but as evident from the published examples, the cuirass’s epaulettes are very indistinct on many examples, but die links to better preserved examples proves that all the busts are cuirassed.