Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1678. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $330. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.42 gm, 2h). Struck 229 AD. Laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder / Alexander standing in quadriga right, holding eagle-tipped sceptre. RIC IV 495; BMCRE 575; Cohen 377. VF, brown patina, slight die shift on reverse, hairline flan crack, die break on obverse. ($300)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 1061.