Banti Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1553. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Sestertius (23.95 g, 1h). Rome mint. Special emission, AD 229. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Severus Alexander driving triumphal quadriga right, holding eagle-tipped scepter and reins. RIC IV 495; BMCRE 575; Banti 93 (this coin). Good VF, dark green patina.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part VIII, Glendining's, 26 May 1959), lot 82; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Ars Classica VIII, 25 June 1924), lot 1272.

This issue was struck in commemoration of Alexander’s assumption of his third consulship.