Pacatian, Usurper

Triton XX, Lot: 826. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pacatian. Usurper, circa AD 248-249. AR Antoninianus (21.5mm, 4.20 g, 1h). Viminacium mint. 2nd emission. IMP TI CL MAR PACATIANVS P F AV, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX AETERNA, Pax, draped, standing left, holding up olive branch and transverse scepter. RIC IV 5c; Szaivert, Beginn 8; RSC 6; Hunter 2 var. (obv. legend). VF, toned. Very rare.

From the KD Collection. Ex Barry Feirstein Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 42, 20 November 2007), lot 160; M. L. Vierordt Collection (Schulman, 5 March 1923), lot 2234; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (10 May 1909), lot 2193.