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CNG 84, Lot: 1097. Estimate $300.
Sold for $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 23.60 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 221. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Elagabalus standing left, holding cypress branch and patera over lighted altar to left; star to right, bull’s head to left of altar. RIC IV 327; Thirion 175 var. (star in left field); Banti 40. Near VF, two-tone brown patina with traces of red. Rare, Banti records only two examples.