295, Lot: 5. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 18.57 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 1st emission, AD 244. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Salus standing left, holding rudder set on globe and feeding serpent rising from altar at left. RIC IV 187a corr. (rudder not scepter); Banti 55 corr. (same). Good VF, dark gray patina, some brown and red, reverse double struck. Exceptional portrait.