Extremely Rare Festival of Isis Issue

CNG 90, Lot: 1714. Estimate $750. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Licinius I. AD 308-324. Æ Fraction (15mm, 2.30 g, 11h). Rome mint. IMP LICINIVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTA P VBLICA, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla. RIC VII –; Alföldi, Festival 6; Vagi 3423; Cohen 203. VF, dark green patina. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 480.