424, Lot: 528. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.63 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 5th emission of Trajan Decius, early AD 251. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Hostilian standing left, holding signum and spear. RIC IV 216a (Decius); Banti 7. VF, green patina, roughness, cleaning scratches in fields.

Ex Fairfield Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 329, 25 June 2014), lot 523; Robert O. Ebert Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 298, 13 March 2013), lot 350.