CNG 100, Lot: 324. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Ebana. Circa 440-470. AV (17mm, 1.60 g, 11h). Crowned and draped bust right, holding scepter, between two grain ears; all within circular border / Draped bust right, wearing head-cloth, holding branch or fly-whisk, between two grain ears; all within circular border. Hahn, Aksumite 34.1; Munro-Hay type 71; BMC Axum 303. EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Steve Album, August 1987.

Reportedly from a small hoard of about 34 pieces found around 1986 in the Tihama region of Yemen.