Extremely Rare SAECVLARES Antoninianus

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 363. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Antoninianus (2.72 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. MAXIMIΛNVS P F AVG (sic), radiate and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG, cippus inscribed COS/X; MXX in exergue. RIC V 415 corr. (broken column); Lyon Suppl. II, 676c (same rev. die). Near EF, traces of silvering. An extremely rare reverse type, Lyon cites only two examples for Maximianus.

From the White Mountain Collection.