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CNG 109, Lot: 695. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pupienus. AD 238. Æ Dupondius (26mm, 10.92 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTIS/ DECENNA/LIBVS/ S C in four lines within wreath. RIC IV 19; BMCRE 17. Good VF, dark green and red-brown patina, some smoothing on reverse. Extremely rare, only one other in CoinArchives (CNG 63, lot 1496) and the first since 2003.


From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection, purchased from Seaby, 2 June 1984.