From the Hunt Collection

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 709. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Balbinus. AD 238. AR Denarius (3.13 g, 7h). Rome mint. 1st issue. IMP C D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICT-ORIA AVGG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in right hand, palm frond in left. RIC IV 8; RSC 27; BMCRE 37-38. Near EF, light gray and gold toning.

Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 21 June 1990), lot 794.