Very Rare Diva Mariniana

442, Lot: 637. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA SUPERIOR, Viminacium. Diva Mariniana. Died before AD 253. Æ (27mm, 9.99 g, 5.5h). Dated year 16 (AD 254/5). DIVAE MARINIANAE, veiled and draped bust right on crescent / P M S C-OL VIM, AN XVI (date) in exergue, Moesia standing left between bull, standing right, and lion, standing left. J&H 99 (R9); SNG Budapest 625 (same obv. die). VF, green patina, light roughness. Very rare.

Ex M&M Numismatics I (7 December 1997), lot 158.