Extremely Rare Half-Length Bust

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 741. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (4.22 g, 7h). Serdica mint, 3rd officina. 8th emission, AD 274-275. IMP C L D AVRELIANVS INVICTVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed half-length bust left, holding Victory on globe in right hand, scepter in left / RESTITVT OR-BIS, female standing right, holding wreath in extended right hand she presents to Aurelian, standing left, holding scepter; *//KAG. RIC V -; BN pl. 84, 229 = F.M. Vanni Peccatori, “Il tesoro di Modigliana (Forlì),” Bollettino di Numismatica 12 (1989), 129. EF, some silvering remaining, slight surface roughness. Extremely rare, possibly the second known.

The sole example recorded by Estiot in her catalog of the BN coins is from the Modigliana hoard.