CNG 97, Lot: 686. Estimate $300. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 21.42 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 221. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing horn / Elagabalus standing left, holding club and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar to left; bull crouching behind altar; star to right. RIC IV 327; Thirion 193; Banti 40. Good VF, red and brown patina, some green, smoothing in fields.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stacks Bowers & Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 6263.