CNG 93, Lot: 1217. Estimate $750. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 20.81 g, 12h). Secular Games issue. Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 249. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MILIARIVM SAECVLVM, cippus inscribed COS/III in two lines. RIC IV 157a; Banti 24. EF, dark gray patina, some brown and red.