CNG 100, Lot: 325. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Anonymous. Circa 470-490. AV (18mm, 1.63 g, 1212h). Crowned and draped bust right, holding scepter; horizontal B before; all between two grain ears / Draped bust right, holding branch or fly-whisk, between two grain ears. Hahn, Aksumite 31; Munro-Hay type 81/5 (this coin, illustrated); BMC Axum –. Near EF, light earthen deposits. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesman Collection (Spink 1239, 13 July 2000), lot 932; Sternberg XVIII (20 November 1986), lot 245.

This anonymous type has been die linked with coins of Nezana/Nezool (Munro-Hay types 78 and 82).