CNG 109, Lot: 499. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Potin Tetradrachm (24.8mm, 13.60 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 of Elagabalus (AD 218/219). IOY MAICA CEB MH(tηρ) CTPA(τοπέδοu), draped bust right / Dikaiosyne standing facing, head left, holding scales and cornucopia; L B (date) to upper left. Köln 2351; Dattari (Savio) 9837; K&G 61.1; Emmett 3049.2. VF, dark brown patina with traces of green.

From the New Orleans Collection. Ex R.S. Speck Collection (Huston MBS 143, February 1996), lot 8.

The obverse legends on nearly all of Maesa’s Alexandrian coinage style her as “mother of the camp” (MH[τηρ] CTPA[τοπέδου]).