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LOT 3341
Probus BI Antoninianus. AD 276-282.
Lugdunum mint; struck January-August AD 282. 2nd officina. IMP C PROBVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / SALV-S AVG, Salus standing to left, holding sceptre and feeding from patera snake coiled around and rising from altar to left; B to right. RIC V 124; Lyon 393. Good Very Fine. Much original silvering remaining.(3.67gr, 23mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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