Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1671. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Æ Sestertius (17.31 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special emission, August-October AD 251. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / VOTIS / DECENNA / LIBVS / S C in four lines within laurel-wreath. RIC IV 127a; Banti 38. VF, green patina, red undertones, earthen highlights, minor scrape in obverse right field across bridge of nose.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.

This type was struck as part of the special emission celebrating the elevation of Volusian to the rank of Augustus, by wishing him ten years of vows.