New Type for Septimius Severus

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 570. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Coela. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ 32mm (15.00 g, 6h). IMP CAE SE (sic) SEPT SEVER PERT AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AEL M-V-NICIP COEL, Genius standing facing, head left, holding cornucopia and statuette of Tyche. Unpublished, but cf. McClean 4140 for similar reverse type on an issue of Commodus. VF, green patina. Apparently unique.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.