Third Known?

Triton XVIII, Lot: 802. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MAURETANIA. Ptolemy. AD 24-40. Æ (26.5mm, 11.56 g, 10h). Caesarea mint. Commemorative issue, dated RY 17 (AD 36/7). REX • IVBA • REGIS • IVBÆ F •, diademed and draped bust of Juba II left / [R] PTOL/[R] A XVII in two lines, above and below, crocodile standing right. MAA 361; Mazard Supp. I 1389 bis; Müller, Afrique –; SNG Copenhagen –. VF, dark brown patina with some green and red deposits, cleaning marks. Extremely rare, possibly the third known.

This issue was unknown until Mazard reported one in his first supplement to his corpus in 1956. That piece remained unique until another example was reported in 1991 (cf. MAA p. 435, n. 2), that corrected Mazard’s reading of the legend. None are in CoinArchives.