Cornelia Supera

CNG 94, Lot: 1072. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cornelia Supera. Augusta, AD 253. AR Antoninianus (21mm, 2.87 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Aemilian. C CORNEL S VPERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / VESTA, Vesta standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, holding transverse scepter in left. RIC IV 30 (Aemilian); RSC 5; Hunter 1. EF, toned. Among the finest known. Extremely rare.

From the Ronald J. Hansen Collection. Ex Tkalec (17 May 2010), lot 393; Numismatic Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 394.

Gaia Cornelia Supera was the wife of Aemilian. Like the wife of Gallienus, Julia Cornelia Salonina, Supera was descended from the illustrious gens Cornelia. Nothing else is known about her, apart from what can be gleaned from the coins struck in her name.