MIR Plate Coin – Ex Niclovits Collection

442, Lot: 32. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian I. AD 253-260. Ӕ As (25mm, 7.56 g, 7h). Rome mint. 1st issue, AD 253-254. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, Virtus / soldier standing left, right hand resting on shield, left holding spear; S C across field. MIR 36, 38m (this coin illustrated); RIC V 204. VF, green patina, thin flan cracks.

Ex Lanz 60 (11 June 1992), lot 849; Niclovits Collection (Hamburger, 19 October 1925), lot 1446.