Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1128. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. Æ Sestertius (22.86 g, 1h). Rome mint. Laureate head right / Ops seated left, resting hand on throne and holding grain ears. RIC IV 20; Woodward, Pertinax - (unlisted obv. die); Banti 18. Near VF, black-green patina, a few scratches in the patina. Forceful portrait of Pertinax.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.