442, Lot: 87. Estimate $400. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of four (4) coins. 87a Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Antoninianus (22.5mm, 3.53 g, 1h). Rome mint. 1st-5th issue, AD 253-260. DIVAE MARINIANAE, diademed, veiled and draped bust to right on crescent / CONSECRATIO, peacock in splendour standing facing, head left. MIR 36, 212b; RIC V 3; Cunetio –. Near EF, toned, edge splits, minor porosity.

Ex Glendining’s (8 October 1990), lot 233.

87b Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.63 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st-5th issue, AD 253-260. DIVAE MARINIANAE, diademed, veiled and draped bust to right on crescent / CONSECRATIO, peacock in splendour standing facing, head right. MIR 36, 213b; RIC V 4; Cunetio 647 var. (bust type). Good VF, weak strike.

Ex Glendining’s (7 July 1993), lot 19; Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, Hoard (1989) [IRBCH 740A], no. 268 (part of).

87c Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Antoninianus (22.5mm, 5.17 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st-5th issue, AD 253-260. DIVE MARINIANAE (sic), veiled and draped bust right on crescent / CONSECRATIO, peacock in splendour standing facing, head left. MIR 36, 216b var. (obv. legend); RIC V 3 var. (same); Cunetio 646 var. (same). VF, toned, edge splits.

Bought from Galata 1987. Ex September list no. 147.

A die-sinking error in the obverse legend.

87d Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.91 g, 5h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 1st-5th issue, AD 253-260. DIVAE MARINIANAE, veiled and draped bust right on crescent / CONSECRATIO, peacock in splendour standing facing, head right; V in left field. MIR 36, 225b; RIC V 4; Cunetio 648. Good VF, toned.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica A (27 February 1991), lot 1939.

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