Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1229. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ETHIOPIA, Solomonic Dynasty. Menelik II. 1889-1913. AR ½ Birr. Paris mint; Jean LaGrange, engraver general. Dated EE 1889 (AD 1897 — struck between 1897 and 1925). Draped bust right, wearing Ethiopian crown / Crowned lion advancing left, head facing, holding long cruciform staff with banner. KM 4. In an NGC slab graded MS64.