Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.20 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission, AD 246. EF.

CNG Feature Auction 126
Lot: 863.
Closing Date: May 29 2024 11:00 ET

Roman Imperial, Bronze

Estimate: $ 1 000

BID NOW

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.20 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission, AD 246. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Annona standing left, holding grain ears over modius and cornucopia. RIC IV 168a; Banti 9. Attractive dark green patina with touches of red. EF. Powerful portrait.

From the Wild Rose Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLV.2 (Summer 2020), no. 531654; Jack A. Frazer Collection (Triton XXIII, 14 January 2020), lot 819, purchased from Freeman & Sear, September 1998.


The final winners of all CNG Feature Auction 126 lots will be determined during the live online sale that will be held on 28-29 May 2024. This lot is in Session Three, which will begin 29 May at 9 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.