Two Extremely Rare Florian Antoniniani – Both Cited in BN Catalog

CNG 84, Lot: 1382. Estimate $300. Sold for $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Florian. AD 276. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.12 g, 6h). Serdica mint, 4th officina. 1st emission, July AD 276. IMP C M ANNIVS FLORIANVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA PERPET VA AVG, Victory standing right, holding palm branch and handing wreath to Florian standing left, holding scepter; (star)//KHΔ. RIC V -; BN p. 409, note i (this coin cited) = Zanchi, Serdica 4 (this coin). VF, some silvering, light porosity. Extremely rare, and apparently the only published example.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Superior (8 August 1983), lot 514; Dr. Charles L. Ruby Collection Part II (Superior, 17 June 1974), lot 1063.