355, Lot: 409. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Potin Tetradrachm (24mm, 11.07 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 of Elagabalus (AD 219/20). IOYΛ MAICA CEB MHT(ηρ) CTPA(τοπέδον), draped bust right / Crowned and draped bust of Isis left; L Γ (date) across field. Köln 2356; Dattari (Savio) 4223; K&G 61.14; Emmet 3056.3. VF, dark gray-brown surfaces with touches of red.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

The obverse legends on nearly all of Maesa’s Alexandrian coinage style her as “mother of the camps” (MHT[ηρ] CTPA[τοπέδον]).