Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1529. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (2.58 g, 12h). Emesa mint. Struck circa AD 194. IMP CAE L SEP SE-V PERT AVG COS II, Laureate head left / MIN-E-R VICT, Minerva seated left, holding Victory and spear, shield below. Cf. Michael Kelly Collection (Spink 123, 18 November 1997), lot 1107 (same obv. die, different rev. type). VF, minor roughness. Apparently unpublished. Very rare with head left.