308, Lot: 284. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 10.21 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 of Elagabalus (AD 218/9). IOYΛ MAICA MHT(ηρ) CTPA(τοπέδον), draped bust right / Elpis advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. Köln 2352; Dattari (Savio) 4220; K&G 61.4; Emmet 3053. Good Fine, surfaces a bit rough.

The obverse legends on nearly all of Maesa’s Alexandrian coinage style her as “mother of the camps.”