Watch List notes:

EGYPT, Alexandria. Quietus. Usurper, AD 260-261. Potin Tetradrachm (21mm, 9.69 g, 1h). Dated RY 1 (AD 260/261). A K T Φ ION (sic) KOVHTOC Є CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing left, wings open, wreath in its beak; L A (date) to lower left. Köln 3013-4; Dattari (Savio) 5382; K&G 95.1; Emmett 3788.1; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 228 (this coin). Near EF, brown patina with traces of green. Attractive surfaces.


From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 118 (14 October 2002), lot 1854.