442, Lot: 21. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian I. AD 253-260. Antoninianus (22mm, 5.47 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st issue, AD 253-254. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right / SALVS AVGG, Salus standing left, holding sceptre and feeding snake rising from altar. MIR 36, 29d; RIC V 121; Cunetio 446. EF, toned.

Bought from Baldwin's, 2000. Ex New York Sale III (7 December 2000), lot 755.

An unusually thick and heavy flan.