Rare Philip I Dupondius – Ex Kovacs Collection

447, Lot: 517. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Dupondius (23.5mm, 9.89 g, 12h). Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 249. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLARES AVGG, S C across field, cippus inscribed COS/ III in two lines. RIC IV 162c. Dark green patina, some encrustation and minor roughness. Near EF. Rare. Only four (4) examples in CoinArchives. Wonderful portrait.

From the Midwest Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear Manhattan Sale 3 (3 January 2012), lot 192; Frank L. Kovacs Collection (Helios 1, 17 April 2008), lot 354 (hammer €800); Hirsch 197 (26 November 1997), lot 674.