Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1552. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Sestertius (21.48 g, 12h). Rome mint. 7th emission, AD 227. Laureate and draped bust right / Pax advancing left, holding olive branch and scepter. RIC IV 465; BMCRE 425 note; Banti 73. Near EF, green patina with patches of brick-red and brown, minor porosity and smoothing.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 624.