Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1442. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA MAESA, grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. Augusta, 218-224/5 AD. Æ Sestertius (21.15 gm, 12h). Struck 218-220 AD. Diademed and draped bust right / Pietas standing left, sprinkling incense over lighted altar and holding open casket of incense. RIC IV 414 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 389 (Elagabalus); Cohen 31. Good VF, green-brown patina with spots of red, light smoothing in fields. ($400)

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 27 (10 December 1996), lot 654.