Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1583. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PROBUS. 276-282 AD. Antoninianus (4.83 g, 12h). Siscia mint. 7th emission, 280 AD. IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed half-length bust left, wearing aegis, holding Victory on globe in right hand and cradling baton in left arm / CONCORD MILIT, Probus standing right, clasping hands with Concordia standing left; T/XXI. RIC V -; Alföldi, Siscia V, -; Pink VI/1, p. 53; cf. Hunter 183 (for obv. type on an Aureus of Siscia); Cohen -. EF, dark brown surfaces. Unique? ($1000)

This bust type is known on very rare of antoniniani of Aurelian from Siscia, but is unpublished on Antoniniani of Probus.