Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1676. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA MAESA, grandmother of Elagabalus. Augusta, 218-223 AD. Æ Sestertius (19.63 gm, 12h). Struck circa 220-222 AD. Draped bust right / Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus, sacrificing out of patera over altar to left; star to right. RIC IV 421 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 396 (Elagabalus); Cohen 47. Good VF, dark green patina with patches of red, light smoothing in obverse fields. ($300)

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.