108, Lot: 216. Estimate $200. Sold for $526. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELAGABALUS. 218-222 AD. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 23.14 gm). Struck 219 AD. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Elagabalus standing left, sacrificing out of patera held over lighted and garlanded altar, holding club in left hand; star in right field. RIC IV 369; BMCRE 360; Cohen 253. Near VF, dark brown patina, reverse slightly double struck. Rare reverse type.

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.