CNG 99, Lot: 916. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AXUM. Kaleb. Circa 510-540. AV (17mm, 1.55 g, 12h). Crowned and draped bust right between two grain ears; all within circular border / Draped bust right, wearing head-cloth, holding branch or fly-whisk; all within circular border. Hahn, Aksumite 41c; Munro-Hay type 102; BMC Axum 409 var. (slightly different legends). VF, light earthen deposits. Rare.

From the Joan Wilde Collection. Ex Morton & Eden (23 November 2004), lot 703.