Triton XXII, Lot: 1153. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 20.81 g, 12h). Ludi saeculares issue. Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 249. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MILIARIVM SAECVLVM, S C across field, cippus inscribed COS/III in two lines. RIC IV 157a; Banti 24. EF, dark gray patina, some brown and red. Exceptional portrait.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 93 (22 May 2013), lot 1217.