Maybe an engraver´s error concerning the year:
Valerian I.,
Viminacium or Sarmizegetusa (?)
mint for
Dacia, 253-260 AD.(dated year 5, 250-251 AD.),
Æ
Sestertius (28-29 mm / 14,46 g),
Obv.:
IMP P LIC VALERIANO A[VG] , laureate, draped and
cuirassed bust of Valerian right, seen from behind.
Rev.: PROVIN - CIA
DAC / AN V (
in ex., year 5 = 250-251 AD.) ,
Dacia standing left, wearing long
chiton and
Phrygian cap, holding up bundle of rice in her right hand, but nothing in her pointing down left hand; to right of
Dacia lion advancing left, to left of
Dacia eagle with
head turned right,
wreath in beak.
Pick (
AMNG) - ;
Martin - (
cf. 7.52.1) .
unlisted
Regards
