Superb Herennia Etruscilla Aureus

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 729. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Herennia Etruscilla. Augusta, AD 249-251. AV Aureus (4.29 g, 8h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 3rd emission, early-mid AD 250. HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated left, drawing veil with right hand, holding scepter in left. RIC 59a (Decius); Calicó 3308a; Cohen 18. Superb EF, traces of die rust.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 24 (5 December 2002), lot 180; Sotheby’s London (6 November 1997), lot 191.