Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1617. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian, with Vaballathus. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (2.93 g, 5h). Antioch mint, 5th officina. 1st emission, AD 270-272. Radiate and cuirassed bust of Aurelian right; E / Laureate and diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Vaballathus right. RIC V 381 corr. (no mention of diadem or cuirass); BN 1248-51. Near EF, dark green-brown patina, traces of edge smoothing.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Vecchi 12 (5 June 1998), lot 826.