Inaugural Liberalitas

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 707. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Balbinus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (17.62 g, 12h). Rome mint. Special inaugural issue. IMP CAES D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LIBERALITAS AVGVSTORVM, S C across field, Liberalitas standing facing, head left, holding abacus in raised right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm, resting left elbow on column to right. RIC IV 15 var. (no column); Banti 2 var. (same); BMCRE 2-3 var. (same); Cohen 11. Near EF, green and red-brown patina, fields very lightly smoothed.

This reverse is apparently unrecorded with the column next to Liberalitas.