271, Lot: 98. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Festival of Isis. Mid 4th century AD. Æ (19mm, 2.51 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 360-363. ISIS F ARIA, draped half-length facing bust of Isis, wearing hem-hem crown / [V]OTA P V BLI CA, Isis, holding sistrum in right hand and scepter in left, sitting on the back of the Sothis dog, bounding right, looking back. Alföldi, Festival pl. VII, 4; Vagi 3391. VF, green patina, holed. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 503.