Rare Issue for Vabalathus as Augustus

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 894. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Vabalathus. Usurper, AD 268-272. BI Tetradrachm (10.19 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 272). Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Homonoia standing left, raising hand and holding two cornucopias; date in left field. Köln 1914; Dattari (Savio) 5509 (this coin); K&G 109.2. VF, brown patina. Very rare issue as sole Augustus.

Ex Bayerische Vereinsbank Münzschätze FPL 12 (November 1976), no. 341; Giovanni Dattari Collection.