366, Lot: 864. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Balbinus. AD 238. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.44 g, 5h). Rome mint. 1st emission. IMP C D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PROVIDENTIA DEORVM, Providentia, draped, standing facing, head left, cradling cornucopia with left arm and holding wand in right hand over globe set on ground to left, fold of drapery over left arm. RIC IV 7; BMCRE 33; RSC 23. EF, lightly toned.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (16 November 1983), lot 534.