Very Rare Late Drachm

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 538. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ Drachm (29mm, 14.40 g, 12h). Dated RY 12 of Gallienus (AD 264/5). KOPNHLIA CALwNINA CEB, draped bust right, wearing stephane / Eagle standing right on ground line, head left, holding wreath in beak; L IB (date) to left, palm to right. Köln -; BMC 2282 = Emmett 3866; Dattari (Savio) 5350 (same dies); Milne -. Good VF, red-brown patina with green overtones. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 41 (19 March 1997), lot 1328.