Maximinus I. AD 235-238. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 21.66 g, 12h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, late AD 236-237. MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left on high-backed chair, resting left elbow on chair, feeding out of patera in right hand serpent coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC IV 85; BMCRE 175-6; Banti 24. Glossy brown patina, minor green deposits on reverse. Superb EF.
Ex John Wright Collection; Peus 360 (27 April 1999), lot 502.
