288, Lot: 461. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 22.04 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 221. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing “horn” / Elagabalus standing facing, head left, holding cypress branch and sacrificing with patera over lighted altar to left. RIC IV 326; Banti 35. Near VF, green patina that is chipped around the edge, flan crack.
From the Greenpoint Collection.