275, Lot: 143. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ As (24mm, 7.97 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONCORDIA AVG, Juno seated facing within round tetrastyle shrine. RIC IV -; Cohen -. VF, green patina, some roughness. Apparently unpublished.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 2283.
A interesting as combining the the legend of Volusian’s Concordia type with the distinct shrine seen on his IVNONI MARTIALI coinage (see RIC IV 253).