442, Lot: 113. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Valerian II. Died AD 258. Æ Sestertius or As (26.5mm, 11.14 g, 7h). Rome mint. 5th issue, AD 258+. DIVO CAES VALERIANO, bust right, head bare, left shoulder draped / [CONSECRATIO; S C in exergue], funeral pyre surmounted by prince in biga. MIR 36, 264o; RIC V 43. Fine, brown patina.

Bought from Davissons, 1995. Ex Davissons FPL (1995, no. 1), no. 250.

MIR lists this coin as a sestertius, but RIC has it as an As. The flan is very small for a sestertius, but the dies were clearly intended to be used on a piece of larger module, as almost all of the legends are off the flan. However, the bust is much smaller than that on lot 114, which clearly is a sestertius.