Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 784. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Pentassarion (10.20 g, 7h). Aurelius Gallus, legatus consularis. Laureate head right / Cybele enthroned left, holding phiale and leaning on tympanum; below, lion seated left; at knee, head of lion left; VP AV GALLOV (OV ligate) in legend. AMNG I -; cf. Varbanov 2061 (for obv.; same die). EF, green patina. An apparently unpublished type for this magistrate for Severus.