115, Lot: 445. Estimate $75. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VALERIAN I. 253-260 AD. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 15.79 gm). Rome mint. Struck 254 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Virtus standing left, leaning on shield and holding reversed spear. RIC V 182; MIR 36, 38g; Cohen 269. Fine/VF, dark green, almost black, patina, some smoothing on obverse.