355, Lot: 407. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Potin Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.93 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 of Elagabalus (AD 218/9). IOY MAICA CEB MH(tηρ) CTPA(τοπέδον), draped bust right / Draped bust of Selene right; crescent moon before; L B (date) behind. Köln 2354; Dattari (Savio) 4231 var. (obv. legend); K&G 61.5; Emmet 3066.2 (R3). Nice VF, dark gray-brown surfaces.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

The obverse legends on nearly all of Maesa’s Alexandrian coinage style her as “mother of the camps” (MH[τηρ] CTPA[τοπέδον]).