Extremely Rare Double Portrait Issue

421, Lot: 456. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Elagabalus, with Severus Alexander as Caesar. AD 218-222. Æ (32mm, 18.76 g, 12h). Dated RY 2? (AD 219?). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right, facing smaller bareheaded and draped bust of Severus Alexander left; uncertain countermark between / Radiate figure seated left, holding branch, between two ornate columns; Mt. Argaeus above, ЄT [B?] (date) in exergue. Sydenham 527i = SNG Hunterian 2268 (same dies). Fine, earthen green surfaces. Extremely rare.