CNG 90, Lot: 987. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Came. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (36mm, 22.01 g, 6h). Epineikos, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Severus on horseback right, raising right hand; shield below horse’s hind legs, bound captive seated below raised foreleg. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, dark brown patina, even light roughness.

From Group CEM. Ex Leu 28 (5 May 1981), lot 493.