370, Lot: 306. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Drachm (33mm, 25.96 g, 12h). Dated RY 10 (AD 230/1). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing right, head left, holding wreath in beak; palm frond to left, L I (date) to right. Köln 2453; Dattari (Savio) 4444; K&G 62.127; Emmett 3158.10 (R4). Near VF, dark brown patina, some light smoothing. Rare.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.

The palm frond alludes to the decennalia ludi, public games celebrating the completion of a ten-year reign.