Triton XXI, Lot: 225. Estimate $300. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trebonianus Gallus. AD 251-253. Potin Tetradrachm (23mm, 10.20 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 252/253). A K Γ OVIB TPЄB ΓAΛΛOC ЄVCЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nike advancing right, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm frond over her left shoulder with her left hand; L Γ (date) across field. Köln 2837; Dattari (Savio) 5116; K&G 83.8; RPC IX 2305.14 (this coin); Emmett 3672.3 (R2); Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 226 (this coin). EF, toned with nice, almost full, silvering showing through. Exceptional surfaces for this issue.

From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 385 (January 1987), no. 22.