436, Lot: 614. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 23.70 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, AD 229. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Alexander standing in and driving slow quadriga right, holding reins and eagle-tipped scepter. RIC IV 495; BMCRE 575-6; Banti 93. VF, brown surfaces, some red, smoothed and tooled.

From the William Whetstone Collection.