CNG 93, Lot: 861. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ Hexassarion (31mm, 17.55 g, 12h). Dated CY 272 (AD 253/4). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Male figure, head left, seated right on rock outcropping, resting hand on rocks and holding mast with furled sail; grain shovel leaning behind against rocks, BOC (date) below. Ziegler 839 (Vs2/Rs9); SNG Levante 1513 (same dies); SNG France 2140 (same dies). Good VF, black-green and dark brown patina, minor smoothing on obverse.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.