Triton XVIII, Lot: 1211. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 17.22 g, 6h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 1st emission, AD 251. IMP CAES C VIBIVS TREBONIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ROMAE AETERNAE, S C in exergue, Roma, helmeted and draped, seated left on throne, holding Victory in right hand and vertical, reversed spear in left; shield set on ground to right. RIC IV 120; Banti 29; Hunter 27. Near EF, brown patina, some red, a trace of earthen deposit on reverse.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Superior (30 May 1990), lot 7278.