Watch List notes:

Valerian I. Sestertius; Valerian I; 253-260 AD, Rome, Sestertius, 13.97g. Göbl-29g (1 spec., Vienna), RIC-173 corr., C-198 (Paris, 15 Fr.). Obv: IMP C P LIC VALERIAN]VS AVG Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed r., seen from front. Rx: SA[LV]S AVGG S - C Salus standing l. extending patera to snake rising from altar and holding scepter. A type of considerable rarity on sestertii. Only the Vienna specimen known to Göbl-29g, but Paris also has one according to Cohen, and there were two more, both from the same reverse die as ours, in Sternberg, May 1986, 666 and CNG E442, 17 April 2019, Holmes Coll., lot 22. Not in Wildwinds, Glasgow, Mazzini, or the Friedrich Collection. The obverse die of our coin was also used with the type VOTIS DECENNALIBVS S C in wreath, Göbl, pl. 7, 40g.. EF