Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 653. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. AR Denarius (3.32 g, 6h). Rome mint. IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / VOT DECEN TR P COS II, Pertinax, togate, standing facing, head left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over tripod and holding roll in left. RIC IV 13a; RSC 56; BMCRE 24. Good VF, toned, traces of deposits.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Ponterio 47 (8 March 1991), lot 1499.