LAELIANVS. 268 AD. AV Aureus (6.12 gm). Mainz mint(?). IMP C LAELIANVS P F 
      AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / TEMPORVM FELICITAS, female figure 
      reclining left, holding branch in right hand and resting left arm on hare. 
      RIC V pt. 2, 1; Schulte 2 (Av1/Rv2); Gilljam pg. 38, 5-7 (same dies); 
      Elmer 623; Cohen 2. FDC. Extremely rare, only twelve other aurei of 
      Laelianus known, most of which are in museum collections. [See color plate 
      11] ($200,000) Ex Bank Leu Auction 52 (15 May 1991), lot 250; Monnaies de 
      Collection, Victor Gadoury (19-20 March 1983), lot 77. The reclining 
      figure on the reverse of this aureus precisely resembles the figure of 
      Hispania on aurei of Hadrian minted more than a century earlier. The 
      family name Ulpius links Laelianus to the aristocratic Spanish family 
      which had produced the great emperor Trajan more than a century and a half 
      before. These and other allusions on the coinage may indicate that the 
      usurper was of Spanish descent, or that his revolt either originated in 
      Spain or had the support of influential Spaniards residing in Gaul.


Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 2109.

 Lot was unsold.

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