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LOT 2800

Sold for (Inc. bp): £91


Ancient Roman Imperial Coins - Salonina - Venus AR Antoninianus 253-268 A.D.

Colonia Agrippinensium (Cologne) mint. Obv: SALONINA AVG, diademed bust right on crescent. Rev: VEN-V-S FELIX, Venus seated left, holding sceptre, reaching for child before her. 3.99 grams, 24 mm.

Good very fine. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the UK market.
Ian Roper collection.

With two coin tickets.

LITERATURE:
RIC V pt. 1, 7 (Gallienus); Göbl 898c; RSC 115.

FOOTNOTES:
Wildwinds states: 'For reattribution of this issue from Lugdunum to Cologne, see Göbl, MIR 36, Die Münzprägung der Kaiser Valerianus I / Gallienus / Saloninus (253/268), Regalianus (260), und Macrianus / Quietus (260/262).'

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