Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1654. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (20.85 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 11th emission, AD 249. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cippus millenarius inscribed COS/III in two lines. RIC IV 162a; Banti 51. EF, brown patina.

Struck to commemorate the one-thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome.