Very Rare Issue as Augustus

442, Lot: 316. Estimate $1000. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Saloninus. July-August AD 261. Antoninianus (21.5mm, 3.58 g, 12h). Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. IMP SALON VALERIANVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, holding flower and raising fold of robe. MIR 36, 917f; RIC V 14 corr. (Spes walks left, not right); Cunetio –; Stevenage 526. VF, toned, green deposits, areas of flat strike. Extremely Rare.

Bought from Hans Gilljam, 1989.