Extremely Rare

351, Lot: 598. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Sebaste(?). Severus Alexander, with Julia Mamaea. AD 222-235. Æ (26mm, 15.26 g, 6h). IMP CE SEV ALEXAND SIC, laureate bust of Severus Alexander right, with slight drapery / IOVΛIA M-AMAIA SЄB, draped bust of Julia Mamaea right, wearing stephane. Apparently unpublished. Good VF, brown patina with some green, minor porosity. Extremely rare and interesting, featuring a mixture of blundered Latin and Greek legends, and lacking an ethnic.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex J. P. Righetti Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 219, 30 September 2009), lot 375; Ex Lanz 46 (28 November 1988), lot 612.