Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1576. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pupienus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (19.73 g, 12h). Rome mint. 2nd emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pax seated left, holding branch and scepter. RIC IV 22b; BMCRE 96; Banti 7. Good VF, dark green patina, minor brown deposits, a little rough, a few short edge splits. Struck on a broad flan.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (30 March 1995), lot 1239.