Very Rare Bust Type

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 346. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (2.70 g, 12h). Cyicus mint, 2nd officina. 1st mission, 2nd phase, late AD 270. IMP C DOM AVR ELIANVS AVG, radiate, helmeted, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding shield with left hand and spear with right; two pellets below / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing facing, head left, holding signum with right hand and transverse scepter with left. RIC V 328 var. (bust type); BN 1081-2 var. (same); MIR 47, 292h2; Venèra -. Good VF, dark green-brown patina, some minor porosity. Very rare, only two examples cited by Göbl.

From the White Mountain Collection.