Among the Finest Known

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1140. Estimate $50000. Sold for $140000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / LAETITIA • TEMPOR COS II, Laetitia, draped, standing left, holding wreath in lowered right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC IV 4a; Woodward, Pertinax, dies 5/K; Calicó 2383 (same obv. die); BMCRE 7. Choice EF, lustrous. Handsome portrait struck in high relief.