The Consul Weber Nigrinian

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 987. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Nigrinian. Died circa AD 284. Antoninianus (3.36 g, 5h). Rome mint, 1st officina. Struck under Carinus, 5th emission, AD 284. DIVO NIGRINIANO, radiate half-length bust right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing facing, head left, wings spread; KAA. RIC V 472 var. (bust type); Pink VI/2, p. 38; Venèra 3405-7. EF, dark brown patina with patches of red and green. Very rare.

Ex Ars Classica XVIII (10 October 1938), lot 476; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 2444.