Triton XXI, Lot: 801. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.11 g, 12h). Rome mint (for Alexandria). Dated RY 7 (AD 227/8). A KAI M AVP CЄOVHP AΛЄΞANΔPOC ЄVCЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Alexander right / L ЄBΔO-MOV, draped bust of Serapis right, wearing calathus. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 62.97 (this coin cited); Emmett 3133 (R4); Kellner p. 122, Fig. 19 (this coin). VF, flan crack. Very rare.

From the A.K. Collection. Ex Sternberg X (25 November 1980), lot 494; Dr. Hans Steger Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 6, 18 March 1936), lot 1076.