The Joan Wilde Collection of Axumite

CNG 99, Lot: 905. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Endubis. Late 3rd century. AV (14mm, 2.71 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing head-cloth, between two grain ears; pellet-in-crescent above / Draped bust right, wearing head-cloth, between two grain ears; pellet-in-crescent above. Hahn, Aksumite 1; Munro-Hay type 1; BMC Axum 1-3. Good VF.

From the Joan Wilde Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 2489.

The reverse legend can be translated as “of the Axumites, man of Dakhu”.