442, Lot: 542. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Quietus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Antoninianus (21mm, 4.48 g, 6h). Normal style. Samosata mint. IMP C FVL QVIETVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FORT REDVX, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae; star in upper left field; pellet in exergue. MIR 44, 1731n; RIC V 4 var. (no pellet in exergue); Cunetio 1922. Good VF, some silvering. Great surfaces for issue. Extremely rare, only one piece noted by MIR (ex Ars Classica XVII, lot 1766).
Bought from Baldwin's, 1994.