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Auction 11  12 January 2014
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Lot 604

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 325 USD
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Lot of Three Rare Antoniniani, Including Two Unpublished Varieties. (0h). . (1) 2.82g, 7h; Rome, c. 267-8 AD. Obv: GALL[IENVS] AVG Head radiate r. Rx: NEPTVNO CO[NS AV]G Hippocamp swimming l., two spike-like fins on back and two more on belly, N (=officina 9) in exergue. Göbl 742b (4 spec.), pl. 58 (different dies); RIC 246 (RN 1892). Very rare reverse variant with hippocamp left rather than right, unknown to Cohen and not represented in the Cunetio hoard. Göbl 742b records four specimens, illustrating one from the Baldersdorf hoard. (2) 2.95g, 12h. A similar coin with hippocamp left, but with bust radiate, cuirassed right on the obverse, an apparently unpublished bust variant of this rare coin. The hippocamp is larger and has a fork-like fin emerging behind its front legs. (3) Salonina, Milan, Antoninianus, 2.37g, 5h. Obv: SALONINA AVG Bust draped right on crescent, wearing stephane. Rx: VENVS [VI]CT Venus standing left holding helmet and transverse scepter; a fold of drapery hangs from her left elbow, but there is no shield there. Reverse type variant of Göbl 1313r (11 spec.), RIC 67 corr., and Cohen 127, apparently unpublished without the shield behind Venus on which she usually rests her left elbow. VF to EF

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