442, Lot: 279. Estimate $75. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of two (2) coins. 279a Valerian I. AD 253-260. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.59 g, 6h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2b. IMP VALERIANVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONCOR EXERC, Concordia standing left, holding patera over altar, and cornucopiae. MIR 36, 803d; RIC V 233 (Milan); Cunetio 761; Wareham 304b (this coin). Good VF, weak strike, shallow mark in field.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1995. Ex Wareham, Dorset, Hoard (1994) [IRBCH –; CHRB X, 36], no. 304b.

279b Valerian I. AD 253-260. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.47 g, 12h). Viminacium mint. Issue 2b. IMP VALERIANVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / CONCOR LEGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. MIR 36, 804d; RIC V 236 (Milan); Cunetio 763. EF, toned.

Ex Sotheby’s (30 March 1995), lot 1258.

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