CNG 90, Lot: 1663. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 21.51 g, 12h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 4th emission, AD 245. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Philip seated left, holding globe and parazonium. RIC IV 148a; Banti 30. Good VF, brown patina, a few patches of green encrustation. Struck on a broad flan.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection, purchased from Spink, December 1951.