195, Lot: 300. Estimate $150. Sold for $251. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Magnentius. AD 350-353. Æ Centenionalis (21mm, 4.08 g, 8h). Siscia mint. Struck September, AD 351. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; A behind / Magnentius standing right, foot on seated captive, holding labarum and spear; III-monogram//[...]SIS. RIC VIII 318; Bastien 517; LRBC 1196. Good Fine, green patina, smoothed. Very rare.

This rare coin was struck when Magnentius occupied Siscia for about a month before the battle of Mursa on 28 September 351. Constantius soon regained the city and resumed striking coins there in his name.