172, Lot: 270. Estimate $200. Sold for $373. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Balbinus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 23.01 g). Rome mint. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Balbinus standing left holding branch and parazonium. RIC IV 16; BMCRE 28; Cohen 21. Near VF, brown patina under some green encrustation.

From The John A. Seeger Collection.