Ex Mazzini Collection

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1521. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galerius. As Caesar, AD 293-305. AR Argenteus (2.46 g, 7h). Carthago (Carthage) mint. Struck circa AD 296-298. Laureate head right / F ADVENT AVGG NN, Carthago, wearing elephant skin headdress, standing facing, head right, holding vexillum and elephant tusk; at base of vexillum, lion recumbent left, head right; T. RIC VI 14b; RSC 26; Mazzini 26 (this coin). Good VF, toned, hairline flan crack. Very rare.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG XIII (17 June 1954), lot 393; Mazzini Collection, no. 26.