CNG 109, Lot: 520. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Philip I. AD 244-249. Potin Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 12.48 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 246/247). A K M IOV ΦΙΛIΠΠΟC ЄVCB (sic), laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Conjoined busts of Nilus, wearing grain ear wreath and with cornucopia before, and Euthenia, draped and wearing grain ear wreath, right; L ∆ (date) to left. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4904-5 var. (obv. legend); K&G 74.68-9 var. (same); Emmett 3502.4 (R3). VF, dark brown patina, minor roughness. Very rare.

From the New Orleans Collection. Ex Amphora Coins FPL 72 (November 1999), lot 200.