108, Lot: 225. Estimate $150. Sold for $461. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA SOAEMIAS, mother of Elagabalus. Augusta, 218-222 AD. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 17.96 gm). Struck 218-220 AD. Diademed and draped bust right / Venus seated left, holding apple and sceptre; small figure of Cupid before her. RIC IV 406 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 379 (Elagabalus); Cohen 18. VF, dark brown patina, some smoothing in fields, reverse double struck. Rare.

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.