Watch List notes:

UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Late 3rd-4th centuries AD. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 5.16 g, 1 h), imitating Probus, 276-282. X X X X - X E X X X Laureate bust of Probus to left, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped scepter in his right hand. Rev. ECM CE CEICEIESO / MISEM Probus standing front, head to left, holding scepter in his left hand and placing his right on a stylized shield; to left, two figures with raised hands; to right, another heavily stylized figure, presenting an uncertain object to the emperor. Cf. Calicó 4172 (for prototype). With original suspension loop attached. Minor marks and the flan slightly wavy, otherwise, fine.


From the Aurum Barbarorum Collection.

This coin was struck from the same die pair as lot 808 above.