297, Lot: 162. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicaea. Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ (27mm, 8.05 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hygeia seated right, feeding serpent hanging from tree branch, facing Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; before tree, statue set on low cippus; c/m: uncertain. RG –; Weiser –; SNG von Aulock 610; for c/m: Howgego –. Near VF, green patina. Rare.