CNG 85, Lot: 981. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.71 g, 1h). Rome mint. 15th emission, AD 232. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Providentia standing left, holding cornucopia and two ears of grain over modius to left. RIC IV 642; BMCRE 883-9; Banti 147a. VF, brown and dark gray-brown patina. Struck on a very broad and heavy flan.