Triton XVIII, Lot: 887. Estimate $500. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Maximinus I. AD 235-238. Æ Hexassaria (32mm, 24.78 g, 12h). Dated CY 255 (AD 236/7). AV · K · Γ · IOV · OVH · MAΞIMЄINOC · CЄB ·, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ANAZ · ЄNΔ · MHTPO ·/ B–Γ/ [CVN]ΘVCIA OI/KOV(MЄ)(NH)C, female figure standing left, wearing polos and holding bipennis in left hand, before bull standing left. Ziegler 663.1 = SNG Levante 1480 = SNG von Aulock 5500 = Ziegler, Städtisches 40, B44 = SGI 3539 (this coin). Good VF, dark brown patina, very minor roughness. One of only two cited in Ziegler’s die study (the other in the ANS).

From the Edoardo Levante Collection. Ex Hans von Aulock Collection.