CNG 100, Lot: 1938. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.19 g, 2h). Rome mint. Struck AD 221-222. Laureate and draped bust right, wearing horn and beard / Elagabalus standing right, holding club and sacrificing from patera over lighted altar to right; star to right. RIC IV 131; Thirion 302; RSC 246. Superb EF, attractively toned, underlying luster, traces of deposits on obverse.

From the R.H. Collection. Ex Tkalec (7 May 2006), lot 195.