Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 663. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (7.27 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 194. L • SEPT • SEV • PE-RT • AVG IMP III, laureate head right / DIS • AVSPICIB TR P • II •, COS II P P in exergue, on left, Hercules standing facing, head left, holding club set on ground in right hand, lion skin over left arm; on right, Bacchus, naked, standing facing, head left, holding oenochoe in right hand and vertical thyrsus in left; between them, a panther, standing left, head right. RIC IV 31; Calicó 2446; BMCRE 63. Near EF, lightly toned, underlying luster, traces of deposits. Rare.