CNG 90, Lot: 945. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Perinthus. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Hexassarion(?) (32mm, 15.40 g, 7h). Pythian Games issue. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Prize crown inscribed ΠVΘIA set on ground line; five ballot balls (ψῆφοι) above. Klose & Stumpf -; Schönert, Perinthos 747 (same rev. die) = Varbanov 467. VF, green patina, light smoothing in fields, areas of light roughness. Extremely rare.