Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1662. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip II. AD 247-249. Æ Dupondius (10.92 g, 11h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. 10th emission, AD 249. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cippus millenarius inscribed COS/II in two lines. RIC IV 265c. VF, green patina.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.

Struck to commemorate the one-thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome.