353, Lot: 565. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximinus I. AD 235-238. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.04 g, 12h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, late AD 236-237. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Salus seated left, feeding from patera a serpent rising from altar with right hand, resting left elbow on back of chair. RIC IV 85; BMCRE 175-6; Banti 24. VF, green patina, deposits on the reverse.

From the JDW Collection, purchased privately November 1997.