Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1566. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SALONINA. Augusta, 254-268 AD. Æ Sestertius (15.75 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck circa 254-260 AD. CORNELIA SALONINA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / VENVS GE-NETRIX, S C across field, Venus standing left, holdng apple in extended right hand, sceptre in left; at feet to left, Cupid standing right, raising hands. RIC V 48 var. (Joint reign; with mintmark); MIR 36, 236d; Banti 19; Hunter -; Cohen 122 var. (same). VF, green and brown patina, some smoothing. ($750)
From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Duke of Northumberland Collection (Sotheby's, 4 November 1982), lot 177 (part of).