403, Lot: 447. Estimate $200. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Julia Maesa. Augusta, AD 218-224/5. Potin Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.30 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 of Elagabalus (AD 218/219). IOY MAICA CEB MH(tηρ) CTPA(τοπέδον), draped bust right / Dikaiosyne standing left, holding cornucopia and scales; L B (date) to upper left. Köln 2350 var. (obv. legend); Dattari (Savio) 9837; K&G 61.2; Emmet 3049.2. Good VF, dark gray-brown surfaces.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

The obverse legends on nearly all of Maesa’s Alexandrian coinage style her as “mother of the camps” (MH[τηρ] CTPA[τοπέδον]).