169, Lot: 271. Estimate $100. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.62 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 203. Laureate head right / The Dea Caelestis, wearing elaborate headdress, looking front, riding right on lion, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; below, water gushing from rocks at left. RIC IV 266; RSC 222. Good VF, toned.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.