Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1186. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VALERIAN I. 253-260 AD. Æ Sestertius (17.12 gm, 12h). Rome mint. Struck 253-254 AD. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / CONCORDIA EXERCIT, S C across field, Concordia standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and cradling double cornucopiae in left arm. RIC V 155 corr. (bust type); MIR 36, 15aa; Banti 5; Hunter -; cf. Cohen 40. EF, mottled olive, brown, and green patina, minor die break in upper reverse field. Unusual portrait. ($2000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.