70,00 €
Numerian (283 – 284 AD). AE Antoninianus, Ticinum mint 283 AD. IMP NVMERIANVS P F AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / PROVIDENT AVGG; Providentia standing left, holding ears of corn and cornucopiae, modius at foot, VXXI in exergue.
| Diameter [mm]: | AE22 |
| Weight [g]: | 3,84 |
| Grade: | VF/VF |
| Attribution: | RIC 447 |
| Commentary: | dark brown-olive patina with minute malchite deposits, some smoothing in fields, well centered, good details |
Numerian apparently died in his travelling coach, where he retreated to protect his inflammated eyes, and his death was only discovered by the smell of his rotting corpse.
