Two Coins Cited in BN Catalog

CNG 84, Lot: 1370. Estimate $400. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (22mm, 4.13 g, 11h). Rome mint, 8th officina. 11th emission, AD 275. Radiate and cuirassed bust right, wearing trabea and holding eagle-tipped scepter / Sol advancing right, holding laurel branch and bow, and trampling upon bound captive to lower right; H/-//XXIR. RIC V 64; BN 209-10 var. (no trabea or scepter) and p. 302-3 (this coin cited); MIR 47, 130/8m (same obv. die as two coins illustrated); Venèra 1291. Good VF, good silvering. Rare, with only five other examples cited in BN.

From the White Mountain Collection.