Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1525. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (3.76 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 204. Laureate head right / Liber (Bacchus) standing right, holding cup and thyrsus, facing Hercules standing left, holding club and lion skin; leopard standing right below Liber. RIC IV 257; RSC 109. Good VF.

From the James E. Cain Collection.