CNG 103, Lot: 956. Estimate $400. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Anonymous. Circa 470-490. AV (19mm, 1.59 g, 12h). Crowned and draped bust right, holding scepter; all between two grain ears / Draped bust right, holding branch or fly-whisk, between two grain ears. Hahn, Aksumite 31; Munro-Hay type 81 introduction; BMC Axum –. VF, areas of light toning, obverse struck with worn die.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny and Mosch 156 (5 March 2007), lot 1649.