CNG 94, Lot: 944. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.97 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 of Elagabalus (AD 219/20). IOYΛ MAICA MHT(ηρ) CTPA(τοπέδον), draped bust of Julia Maesa right / Crowned and draped bust of Isis left; L Γ (date) behind. Köln 2356 (same dies); Dattari (Savio) 4223; K&G 61.14; Emmet 3056. VF, toned. Nice surfaces.

From the Robert M. Harlick Collection, privately purchased from Lucernae.

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