Watch List notes:

AXUM. Armah. Circa 540-580. Æ (19mm, 1.72 g, 12h). Crowned half-length bust enthroned right, holding cross-tipped scepter; pellet to right of chin / Voided Greek cross connected to ring by stem; wheat stalks emerging from ring. Hahn, Aksumite 72a; Munro-Hay type 153; BMC Axum 587-8; SACAM 557-8. Earthen green patina, some roughness, gilding on reverse. VF.

Reportedly ex Victor "Tory" Failmezger Collction, purchased in Cairo during World War II.