Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 963. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (7.13 gm). Laodicea mint. Struck 199 AD. L SEPT SEV AVG IMP XI PART MAX, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MONETA AVGG, Moneta seated left, holding scales and cornucopiae. RIC IV 510b; BMCRE 668 var. (bust seen from behind); Cohen 341 var. (bust type). EF, lustrous. Attractive bust type. (See color enlargement on plate 15.) ($5000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection.

This obverse die was also used to strike aurei dated TR P VII (see BMCRE pg. 291, *).