Triton XIV, Lot: 790. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 19.43 g, 12h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. 1st emission, AD 244. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LAET FVNDATA, S C across field, Laetitia, draped, standing left, right foot on prow, holding patera in right hand and rudder set on globe in left. RIC IV 176a; Banti 19; cf. Hunter 69 (holding wreath, no foot on prow). EF, two-tone brown surfaces. Exceptional.