CNG 102, Lot: 1080. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aemilian. AD 253. AR Antoninianus (20mm, 3.76 g, 6h). Rome mint. IMP AEMILIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory standing facing, head left, holding wreath and palm frond. Cf. RIC IV 11 and RSC 53 where Victory is advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond. Choice EF. Nice metal.

Both RIC and RSC note that there is a Becker die for Aemilian with “Victory standing left” on the reverse. George Hill, in his work Becker the Counterfeiter, lists only the standard type (RIC IV 11; RSC 53), and stylistically, the present specimen is not similar to Becker’s style (see no. 216 in the Hill reference), but it is stylistically similar to that of the Rome mint.