Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 974. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS. Amasia. Severus Alexander. 222-235 AD. Æ 38mm (26.35 gm, 1h). Dated CY 228 (228/9 AD). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / High altar upon which eagle stands facing; above, Sol in facing quadriga, holding whip(?); tree to left of altar. RG 101; cf. SNG Copenhagen 119; BMC Pontus 39. VF, dark green patina, minor areas of porosity. ($400)