CNG 109, Lot: 705. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 20.89 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission of Trajan Decius, AD 251. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Apollo seated left, holding branch and leaning arm on lyre. RIC IV 215 (Decius); Banti 3. Near EF, dark green-brown patina, some red, reverse double struck. Choice portrait.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection, purchased from Victor England, 3 January 1989.