225, Lot: 530. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Probus. AD 276-282. Antoninianus (23mm, 2.65 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint, 3rd officina. 5th emission, late AD 277-early 278. VIRTVS PROBI AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, raising hand and holding crowning Victory on globe / FIDES MIL ITVM, Fides standing facing, head left, holding signum in each hand; III. RIC V -; Pink VI/1 p. 69; Lyon 237a (same obv. die). VF, rough green-brown surfaces, some deposits. Very rare and interesting bust type.

From the White Mountain Collection.