Artistic Hippopotamus
436, Lot: 670. Estimate $200. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. AR Antoninianus (22mm, 4.17 g, 12h).
Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Hippopotamus with ears, head raised, walking right; IIII. RIC IV 116b (Philip I); RSC 64. Good VF, toned.
From the William Whetstone Collection.