Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 669. Estimate $30000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (7.06 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 209. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / LIBERALIT-AS, AVGG VI in exergue, distribution scene: Geta, Septimius Severus, and Caracalla seated left on curule chairs on platform; behind them stands a lictor, before them stands Liberalitas, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopia in left; to left, citizen, togate, mounting steps of platform, holding out fold of toga with both hands. RIC IV 279 var. (break in rev. legend); Calicó 2481 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 352 var. (same). EF, lightly toned. Rare.

Ex Berk 144 (13 July 2005), lot 22.