Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 631. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ 30mm (17.93 g, 7h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; P in left and right fields / Three nude athletes standing facing, each crowning himself with radiate crown and holding palm frond. SNG France 1814; SNG Levante 1187. VF, green-brown patina, areas of minor roughness. Better than any of the three plated coins in the above references. Exceptional for issue.