442, Lot: 705. Estimate $250. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 705a LYDIA, Tralles. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (29mm, 9.97 g, 6h). Aul. Tan. Corinthos, magistrate. AVT K ΠO ΛIKINNIOC BAΛEPIANOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Є(ΠI) (ΓP) AVΛ TAN K[OPI]-NΘOV TPAΛΛI/ANΩN, Athena standing facing, head left, holding shield and spear. BMC 183. VF, brown surfaces.

Ex Emporium Hamburg 50 (13 November 2003), lot 644.

705b LYDIA, Tralles. Gallienus. AD 253-268. Æ (21mm, 4.25 g, 6h). [ΠO ΛIKIN] ΓAΛΛIHNOC K, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TPAΛΛ-IANΩN, prize urn inscribed [ΠVΘ]IA, containing two palm branches. BMC 204; SNG von Aulock 8289. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness. A scarcer issue commemorating the Pythian Games.

Ex Mūnz Zentrum (14 April 1993), lot 799.

705c LYDIA, Sardis. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ (27mm, 8.06 g, 7h). Rufus, magistrate. CAΛΩN [XPV]COΓONH C, diademed and draped bust right / ЄΠ POYΦOY · AC-IAP · CAPΔIAN[ΩN]/ · Γ · NЄ-ΩKOP ·, cult statue of Kore facing. BMC 208. VFNear VF, rough brown patina.

Ex Naville Numismatics 16 (12 July 2015), lot 350.

On this coin Salonina is given the title “Chrysogone” (begotten of gold). For a discussion of this, and of Salonina’s ancestry, see Bray (1997), pp. 30-31.

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