Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1188. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VALERIAN I. 253-260 AD. Æ Dupondius (15.81 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 253-256 AD. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVGG, S-C across field, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus in right hand and cradling cornucopiae in left arm. RIC V 185 var. (no P F in obverse legend); cf. MIR 36, 9 and 66; Hunter -; Cohen 112 var. (same). VF, glossy black patina, some smoothing. Rare. ($1000)

Ex the Cornelius C. Vermeule Collection (Triton III, 30 November - 1 December 1999), lot 1687 (part of).

Although Göbl doesn't record any dupondii with this obverse legend, the legend is paired with this reverse type on other denominations of his in the first and second emissions at Rome, and thus is probably an unrecorded denomination for one of these issues.