448, Lot: 501. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ As (26mm, 7.76 g, 1h). Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 249. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG, S C across field, cippus inscribed COS/ III in two lines. RIC IV 162b. Brown and red patina, hairline flan crack, some smoothing. VF.

From the Midwest Collection.