Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1053. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $880. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA MAESA, grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. Augusta, 218-224/5 AD Æ Sestertius (16.85 gm, 5h). Struck 218-220 AD. IVLIA MAESA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right / PIETAS AVG, S C across field, Pietas standing left, sprinkling incense from extended right hand over garlanded and lighted altar and holding open casket of incense in left hand. RIC IV 414 (Elagabalus); Banti 6; BMCRE 389 (Elagabalus); Cohen 31. Good VF, mottled black-green patina, spots of brick-red on reverse, hairline flan crack. ($750)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Vecchi 12 (5 June 1998), lot 790.