Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1228. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ETHIOPIA, Solomonic Dynasty. Menelik II. 1889-1913. AR Birr. Paris mint; Jean LaGrange, engraver general. Dated EE 1887 (AD 1894). Draped bust right, wearing Ethiopian crown / Crowned lion advancing left, head facing, holding long cruciform staff with banner. KM 5. In an NGC slab graded MS63.