Bonosus, Sayles plate coin, Image rights: wildwinds.com "Quintus Bonosus" c. 280 AD, billon antoninianus, (3.60g) [M C] BONOS AVI(?) Radiate and draped, bearded bust right. IOVL X AIVN Emperor, holding transverse spear, standing facing, head right. RIC- (see p. 592, note, and plate xx, #15-16); Wayne Sayles, Ancient Coin Collecting III, p. 107 (this coin); another similar piece with this reverse Hess/Leu 41 (1969). Good VF / VF, crude blundered legends, toned billon, a bit silvery at the worn high points. Ex-Rhode Island collection, purchased 12/96 at $4000 Ex-Stack's 12/96 #812 as a "barbarous radiate AE antoninianus represented to the consignor as Bononus (sic) an ephemeral imperial figure," Ex-Athena Fund, Merrill Lynch Ex-NFA XX, #440, Ex-Myers-Adams 4/7/74 #471.