290, Lot: 433. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 14.36 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, August-October AD 251. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTIS/ DECENNA/LIBVS/ S C in four lines within laurel wreath. RIC IV 127a; Banti 38. VF, dusty grayish-green patina, compact flan.

This type was struck as part of the special emission celebrating the elevation of Volusian to the rank of Augustus, by wishing him ten years of vows.