Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1252. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Valerian I. 253-260 AD. Æ 30mm (19.89 gm). Year 300 (253/4 AD). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right; serpent staff before / Valerian standing left, sacrificing at altar before pentastyle temple seen in perspective. Price and Trell 610, fig. 406; Cf. SNG Levante 1801 (reverse legends); SNG France -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC Lycaonia, etc. pg. 27, 39. Good VF, brown and earthen patina. ($750) Far superior to both the BMC and Levante specimens.