Triton XIX, Lot: 2772. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ETHIOPIA, Ethiopian Empire. Haile Selassie, with Waizero Menen. Second reign, 1936-1974. AV Medal (32.5mm, 14.51 g, 12h). Silver Jubilee. Addis Ababa mint. Dated EE 1948 (AD 1955). “Haile Selassie the First, King of Kings of Ethiopia” in Amharic, crowned and mantled busts of Haile and Menen left / “Twenty-fifth Year of the Coronation Festival” in Amharic, the royal palace; below, “Princely Paradise” in Amharic. Gill S34. EF, hairlines.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adam, purchased from M. Louis Teller, May 1986.