MIR Plate Coin

442, Lot: 52. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian I. AD 253-260. Ӕ As (23mm, 8.89 g, 6h). Rome mint. 2nd issue, AD 255-256. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVGG, Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera and cornucopiae; S C across field. MIR 36, 66i (this coin illustrated); RIC V 196 var. (obv. legend and bust type). VF, green patina with patches of red, minor roughness on reverse.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1993. Ex Jacquier FPL 15 (Summer 1993), no. 416.

MIR places this coin in Issue 2, with P F in obverse legend, although this part of the legend is off the flan. It could equally be MIR – [9m] of Issue 1