442, Lot: 536. Estimate $50. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.62 g, 7h). Contemporary forgery, hybrid with reverse of Postumus. IMP SALON V[ALERI]ANVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right / FIDES MI[LITVM], Fides standing facing, head left, holding two standards. Reverse of Postumus, AGK 21, RIC V 59. Near Fine, even gray brown surfaces, a few minor deposits.

Ex Jacquier 40 (16 October 2015), lot 345.

Like the previous lot, this coin is in extremely base metal, and it has every appearance of being a cast, with a soft, ‘soapy’ feel to the surfaces. The reverse type belongs to an early issue of Postumus, dated in AGK to AD 260-1. Its combination with an obverse of Saloninus as Augustus, dating from the summer of 260, is not surprising, therefore. It is a far less convincing forgery than the previous lot, and is probably from a different counterfeiting workshop.