172, Lot: 242. Estimate $200. Sold for $655. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. Æ As (21mm, 6.07 g). Rome mint. Laureate head right / Ops seated left, holding grain ears. RIC IV 35a; BMCRE 48 note; Cohen 35. Near VF, green patina, surfaces smoothed, legend tooled, struck on a small flan or perhaps cut down in antiquity for some reason.

From The John A. Seeger Collection.