Probus, 276-282. Antoninianus (Bronze, 23 mm, 4.23 g, 12 h), Lugdunum, January-August 282. [IMP C PROB]VS•P•F•AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Probus to right. Rev. SALVS AVG Salus standing front, head to left, feeding serpent, rising from altar, out of patera with her right hand and holding long scepter in her left; in field to right, B. Bastien 393. Cohen -. RIC 124. A particularly impressive flip-over double strike. Light deposits, otherwise, good very fine.


This coin is a so-called flip-over double strike, meaning that the flan was not removed between two strikes but flipped over, causing the figure of Salus to appear on the obverse as well, with the end of the original legend - VS•P•F•AVG - still visible.