442, Lot: 552. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Quietus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Antoninianus (22mm, 4.58 g, 1h). Normal style. Samosata mint. IMP C FVL QVIETVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ROMAE AETERMAE (sic), Roma seated left on shield, holding Victory and spear. MIR 44, 1738f var. (rev. legend); RIC V 9 var. (same); Cunetio –. VF, some silver content, porosity.

Ex Spink 94 (14 October 1992), lot 261; ‘Gibraltar’ (Jimena de la Frontera) Hoard (1962) [NC 1962, pp. 335–406].

An example of a die-sinker’s error in the reverse legend.