Cornelia Supera, Wife of Aemilian

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1216. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cornelia Supera. Augusta, AD 253. AR Antoninianus (21mm, 3.68 g, 12h). 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 and cradling scepter in left arm. RIC IV 30 (Aemilian); RSC 5; Hunter 1. Good VF, toned. Rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 656.