442, Lot: 120. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Saloninus. As Caesar, AD 258-260. Æ As (23mm, 8.16 g, 7h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th issue, AD 258-260. LIC COR SAL VALERIANVS N CAES, draped bust right, head bare / PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, prince standing facing, head left, holding globe and sceptre; captive at his feet; V in upper right field; S C across lower field. MIR 36, 276u var. (location of mint-mark); RIC V 34 var. (mint-mark). Near VF, green patina.

Bought from Seaby, 1983. Ex Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 779 (July 1983), no. C338.

Neither MIR nor RIC lists this coin with V mint-mark in upper right field, but for a similar coin, probably from the same dies, see Piancastelli collection catalogue, no. 97.