Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1342. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Aphilas. Circa 300-320. AV 7mm (0.33 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing headcloth; to right, disk-in-crescent / ΛΦI/Λ Λ C/BΛ CI/ΛЄY in four lines across field. Hahn, Aksumite 6; Munro-Hay type 8; BMC Axum 11 (same dies). Good VF, minor deposits on reverse.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6 June 1996), lot 1460; Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 922.