Rare Cornelia Supera, Wife of Aemilian

CNG 102, Lot: 1081. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Cornelia Supera. Augusta, AD 253. AR Antoninianus (22mm, 3.92 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, darkly toned, minor porosity. Rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 215 (14 October 2013), lot 362.