The Usurper Alexander of Carthage

Triton XX, Lot: 861. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexander of Carthage. Usurper, AD 308-310. Æ Follis (21mm, 4.89 g, 6h). Carthago (Caerhage) mint. IMP ALEXANDER P F AVG, laureate head right / ROMAE AETERIIAE, Roma, holding globe in outstretched right hand and scepter in left, seated facing, head left within hexastyle temple façade; PK. RIC VI 70; Salama type VII, portrait style G. Near EF, brown surfaces, a few hard green deposits, minor roughness. Very rare.

From the collection of a director. Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein (27 October 1977), lot 500.