327, Lot: 363. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Alaisa (as Halaisa). Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ As(?) (24mm, 7.70 g, 7h). Marcus Paccius Max–, duovir and flamen augustalis designatus(?). Struck circa 2 BC-AD 7. Male head left / AVG within laurel wreath. Campana 34; CNS 21; RPC I 631. Near VF, green patina. Very rare.

From the Continental Collection.

RPC (p. 169) notes that the Roman coinage of Alaisa provides us with the earliest evidence of the Imperial cult in Sicily.