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. 

Extremely rare, only twelve other aurei of Laelianus known, 
most of which are in museum collections. 

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. 

Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 2109.

 Lot was unsold.

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