442, Lot: 103. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 103a Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 2.93 g, 7h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VALERIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CRESCENTI, infant Jupiter seated on goat walking right. MIR 36, 247k; RIC V 14; Cunetio 663. Good VF, toned, porous.

Ex Sotheby’s (22 March 1990), lot 107 (part of).

103b Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.71 g, 5h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VALERIANVS NOB AES (sic), radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CRESCENTI, infant Jupiter seated on goat walking right. MIR 36, 247k var. (obv. legend); RIC V 14 var. (same); Cunetio 663 var. (same). VF, toned, porosity.

Ex Sotheby’s (22 March 1990), lot 107 (part of).

Die-sinking error in obverse legend.

103c Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.85 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VALERIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOBI CRESCENTI (sic), infant Jupiter seated on goat walking right. MIR 36, 247k var. (rev. legend); RIC V 14 var. (same); Cunetio 663 var. (same). Good VF, toned, minor scratches.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica B (25 February 1992), lot 2180.

Not a die-sinking error, as might be imagined, but an example of the apparently widespread practice at the time of substituting B for V in inscriptions.

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