Rare Marcianopolis Bronze

306, Lot: 230. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Elagabalus, with Julia Maesa. AD 218-222. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 11.50 g, 12h). Julius Antonius Seleucus, legatus consularis. Confronted busts of Elagabalus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Julia Maesa left, draped and wearing stephane / Draped bust of Serapis right, wearing calathus; E (mark of value) before. H&J 6.28.6.1 var. (E behind Serapis; R7); AMNG I 940 var. (same); Pfeiffer 467 var. (same); Varbanov 1648 var. (same). VF, dark green and black patina, light roughness. Rare type, and possibly an unrecorded variant.