Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 698. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diadumenian. As Caesar, AD 217-218. AR Denarius (4.01 g, 6h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, March-late June AD 218. M OPEL ANT DIADVMENIAN CAES, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SPES PVBLICA, Spes advancing left, holding flower in right hand and lifting dress with left. RIC IV 117; Szaivert 11-12; RSC 21a; BMCRE 92-3. EF, lustrous, minor flan flaw on obverse.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 185 (16 February 1995), lot 1176.