Sale: Triton X, Lot: 725. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip II. As Caesar, AD 244-247. Æ Sestertius (18.90 g, 12h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. 5th emission, AD 246. M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, bare-headed and draped bust right / PRINCIPI I-VVENT, S C across field, Philip standing facing, head left, holding globe in right hand, spear in right. RIC IV 256a; Banti 9; Cohen 49. Near EF, red-brown patina, traces of green, slight die shift on reverse.