442, Lot: 119. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 119a Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.11 g, 12h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 5th issue, AD 258-260. LIC COR SAL VALERIANVS N CAES, radiate and draped bust right / PRINC IVVENT, prince standing facing, head left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; captive at his feet; P in left field. MIR 36, 274i; RIC V 28 var. (rev. type and position of mint-mark); Cunetio 700. VF, toned, minor green deposits. Extremely rare, only one cited by MIR (in KHM [Vienna]), one additional in Cunetio (now in BM).

Ex Spink 94 (14 October 1992), lot 251 (part of).

119b Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Antoninianus (22mm, 2.86 g, 11h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 5th issue, AD 258-260. LIC COR SAL VALERIANVS N CAES, radiate and draped bust right / PRINC IVVENT, prince standing facing, head left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; captive at his feet; P in right field. MIR 36, 275i; RIC V 28 var. (rev. type); Cunetio 701. Near EF, toned, minor deposits, faint porosity.

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XI (8 December 1982), lot 519.

119c Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.06 g, 5h). Rome mint. 5th issue, AD 258-260. LIC COR SAL VALERIANVS N CAES, radiate and draped bust right / PRINC IVVENT, prince standing facing, head left, holding globe and long vertical sceptre; captive at his feet. MIR 36, 274i/275i var. (no mint-mark); RIC V 28 var.; Cunetio 699. Good VF, coppery surfaces, light porosity.

Bought from CGB, Paris, 2012.

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