Triton XXI, Lot: 830. Estimate $20000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. AV Aureus (20mm, 3.99 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 5th emission, mid AD 253. IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P IIII COS II, Gallus standing left, holding branch in right hand, scepter in left. RIC IV 1; Calicó 3342 (same dies as illustration); Biaggi –; Hunter –; NAC 78, lot 1095 (same dies). Choice EF, lustrous. Very rare.

Struck from the same obverse die as CNG 105, lot 947, an issue with a different reverse type.