Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1563. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. Æ Sestertius (20.86 gm). Struck 229 AD. Laureate head right / Severus Alexander seated left on curule chair set on daïs, extending hand to individual standing left, mounting stairs to receive tessera; Liberalitas standing facing before, holding abacus; two attendants standing left behind. RIC IV 571; BMCRE 564; Cohen 139. Near EF, green and brown patina, some smoothing. Rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 1066.

According to the original owner, this coin came from a collection found during a reorganization of Glamis Castle, Scotland, and was apparently assembled by an unknown collector in the eighteenth century, likely before 1717. Glamis is the ancestral home of the Bowes-Lyons family; Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons was the wife of George VI of Great Britain, and mother of Elizabeth II. Glamis was also the setting for the murder of Duncan in Shakespeare's Macbeth.