Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1299. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Pescennius Niger. 193-194 AD. BI Tetradrachm (11.30 gm, 12h). Date uncertain. Laureate head right / Elpis walking left, holding flower and lifting hem of chiton. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF on obverse, reverse heavily corroded. Extremely rare, with an extensive pedigree. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (H. Schulman, 6-11 June 1969), lot 3501; John L. Balderston III Collection (Stack's, 29 May 1948), lot 240; Russell Burrage Collection (J.C. Morgenthau, 26 November 1934).