Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 652. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. AR Denarius (3.55 g, 7h). Rome mint. IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / OPI DIVI[N] TR P COS II, Ops seated left, holding two grain ears in right hand, resting left on seat of chair. RIC IV 8a; RSC 33; BMCRE 19-20. Superb EF.

From a Gentleman’s Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear FPL 6 (Summer 2001), lot F125.