CNG 96, Lot: 860. Estimate $30000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. AV Aureus (20mm, 3.31 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission, AD 251. C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINT N C, bareheaded and draped bust right / PRINCIPI IVVE NTVTIS, Hostilian standing left, holding signum and reverted spear. RIC IV –; Calicó 3316a; Biaggi 1405; Künker 236, lot 1170 (same rev. die); NAC 67, lot 201 = Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Frank McClean Collection), 13 June 1906, lot 100 (same rev. die, but earlier die state); cf. NAC 72, lot 723 (same obv. die). Near EF.