Attractive and Choice Late Portrait

445, Lot: 474. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximinus I. AD 235-238. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 18.70 g, 11h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, late AD 236-237. MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding signum in each hand; S C across field. RIC IV 78; BMCRE 139; Banti 4. EF, dark green-brown patina. Well centered on a broad flan, with an attractive late portrait and full detail on the figure of Fides.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 535 (hammer 2000 SFr).