442, Lot: 107. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 107a Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (23mm, 4.26 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VALERIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, prince standing facing, head left, holding standard and reversed spear. MIR 36, 250k; RIC V 23; Cunetio 665. Good VF, toned.

Bought from Baldwin's, 2003.

107b Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.66 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VALERIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, prince standing facing, head left, holding standard and long vertical sceptre. MIR 36, 250k var. (rev. type); RIC V 23 var. (same); Cunetio 666. Good VF.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1989.

The variant with sceptre instead of reversed spear is not noted in either MIR or RIC, but the Cunetio hoard contained 17 specimens of this reverse and only 4 of that with spear.

107c Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.53 g, 6h). Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P C L VAERIANVS NOB CAES (sic), radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, prince standing facing, head left, holding standard and long vertical sceptre. MIR 36, 250k var. (obv. legend and rev. type); RIC V 23 var. (same); Cunetio 666 var. (obv. legend). EF, toned.

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

A die-sinking error in the obverse legend.

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