Very Rare Alaesa Issue

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1158. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Alaesa. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 19mm (5.87 g, 12h). M. Paccius Macxu, duovir and flamen Augustalis designatus. Laureate head of Apollo right / Cithara. RPC 633.2 (this coin; illustrated); SNG München -; cf. BMC 16. Near VF, green and red-brown patina. Very rare.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Hess 249 (13 November 1979), lot 68.