Watch List notes:

IONIA, Metropolis. Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ (25mm, 10.9 g, 6h). Valerianus Nikias, strategos. AVT K ΠOΠ ΛIKI OVAΛEPIANOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ЄΠ CT · OVA · NЄIKIA ΠP [T]O [B] MHTPO, ΠOΛЄITΩ/N in exergue, emperor standing right, holding spear or scepter, clasping hands with Tyche, standing left, holding scepter. BMC –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 935. Near VF, earthen green-brown patina, some roughness.

Ex Van der Dussen 24 (1 June 1995), lot 2827.