372, Lot: 498. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Balbinus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 22.29 g, 12h). Rome mint. 1st emission. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Providentia standing left, holding cornucopia and wand over globe to left. RIC IV 19; Banti 8. Near VF, green-brown patina.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Rainer Wilschke Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 84, 20 May 2015), lot 1999; Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 1458.