218, Lot: 461. Estimate $75. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tacitus. AD 275-276. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.54 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 2nd emission, November-December AD 276. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Salus standing facing, head left, holding scepter and feeding from patera a serpent rising from altar; XXIΔ. RIC V 93; BN 1562. Good VF, mostly brown with a trace of silvering, a few small green deposits.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.