Rare Severus Tridrachm

196, Lot: 305. Estimate $500. Sold for $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tridrachm (23mm, 9.34 g, 7h). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Struck circa AD 198-202. Laureate head right / IMPE/ C L SEP/ SEVERVS/ P A[V]G within laurel-wreath. RIC IV 529b; RSC 215a; Metcalf, “The Severan Cistophori,” in RIN 1988, 2a (same dies). Near VF, porous. Rare.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection; Ex Gorny 69 (18 November 1994), lot 637.