Vabalathus as Augustus

CNG 99, Lot: 706. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vabalathus. Usurper, AD 268-272. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.43 g, 6h). Antioch mint, 6th officina. 2nd emission, circa March-May 272. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Jupiter standing left, holding globe and scepter; star to left, eagle at feet. RIC V 3; Bland, Coinage 25f (dies 37/Iov vi); MIR 47, 356. Good VF, black patina under a layer of earthen deposits. Rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 1267.