Apparently Unique Hybrid

442, Lot: 110. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Valerian II. Caesar, AD 256-258. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.73 g, 12h). Hybrid with reverse of Valerian and Gallienus. Rome mint. 2nd-5th issue, AD 256-8. P [C L] VALERIANVS NOB CAES, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LAETITIA AVGG, Laetitia standing facing, head left, holding wreath and anchor. MIR 36, – (rev. as 98/129/140/182 of issues 2-5); RIC V –; H. J. Lückger, “Zum Korpus der römischen Kaizermünzen” in Frankfurter Münzzeitung 16 (1931), p. 243, 18 (this coin). VF, toned. Apparently unique.

Ex Hermann-Joseph Lūckger Collection (Peus 417, 2 November 2016), lot 581.