442, Lot: 825. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ Drachm (29mm, 13.31 g, 11h). Dated RY 12 of Gallienus (AD 264/5). KOPNHΛIA CAΛɯNεINA CεB, draped bust right, wearing diadem / Tyche standing facing, head left, holding a rudder with her right hand and a cornucopia with her left; L IB (date) to upper left, palm frond to right. Köln 2972; Dattari (Savio) 10562; K&G 91.37; Emmett 3868.12 (R5 – citing Köln 2972); Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 235 (this coin). Good VF, dark brown patina with traces of green. Extremely rare, with only one inferior specimen and this coin on CoinArchives.

Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection (Triton XXI, 9 January 2018), lot 230; Lanz 66 (22 November 1993), lot 837.