160, Lot: 144. Estimate $100. Sold for $112. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Cius. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ 31mm (19.33 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / KIAN (retrograde)-WN, Serapis seated left, right hand extended, holding scepter in left. RG -; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, brown patina, some very minor roughness. Apparently an unpublished reverse type from Cius. An issue of Caracalla shows a similar reverse figure of Hades seated left but with cerberus at his feet (SNG Copenhagen 390). .

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Coin Galleries (13 November 2002), lot 251.