Ex Bally-Herzog Collection

CNG 96, Lot: 865. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Florian. AD 276. Æ Medallion (35mm, 17.35 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission, AD 276. IMP C M ANN FLORIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / M ONETA A VG, the Tres Monetae, each standing left on ground line, holding scales and cornucopia; at feet of each to left, a heap of coins. Gnecchi 2 and pl. 118, 9 (this medallion referenced); BN 1885; Cohen 44; Tocci 76; Froehner, p. 236. Good VF, olive green patina, fields smoothed, details of portrait tooled, area of restoration on reverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 72 (16 May 2013), lot 737; Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 93, 18 December 2003), lot 256; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (Part II, J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 2392.