Extremely Rare Issue
From the Burstein & Lindgren Collections

294, Lot: 454. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Julia Mamaea. Augusta, AD 222-235. Æ (24mm, 9.10 g, 12h). Dated CY 277 (AD 230/1). Draped bust right / Nike standing facing, holding up tabula ansata inscribed ΔIKAIA (= “rights”); Z-O/C (date) across field. SNG France –; SNG Levante –; Lindgren & Kovacs 1403 (this coin). VF, rough brown patina, traces of silvering on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the Collection of Kelly Krizan, MD. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (not in Peus sale); Dr. Henry Clay Lindgren Collection.

This issue must have been struck on the occasion of Severus Alexander’s visit to the city in AD 231, at the time when Aegeae was granted a neocorate and the emperor, to judge from rare coin inscriptions, assumed the priesthood of Asclepius.