Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1547. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AR Denarius (3.11 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 220-221. Laureate and draped bust right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter; star in left field. RIC IV 107; Thirion 271; RSC 92a. EF, traces of deposits, slight weakness of strike on drapery and corresponding reverse at head of Libertas.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 620 (part of); Francesco Martinetti Collection (Canessa, 18 November 1907), lot 2541.