372, Lot: 513. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Volusian. AD 251-253. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 19.43 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, August-October AD 251. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTIS/DECENNA/LIBVS/ S C in four lines within laurel wreath. RIC IV 264; Banti 29. VF, brown surfaces with patches of red, some roughness and deposits.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 176 (9 March 2009), lot 2490 (hammer €180).

This type was struck as part of the special emission celebrating the elevation of Volusian to the rank of Augustus, by wishing him ten years of vows.