Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 671. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (3.06 g, 6h). Emesa mint. Struck AD 194. IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG, laureate head right / FELICITAS TEMPORVM II COS, basket of fruit and grain. RIC -; RSC -; BMCRE -. VF, toned, minor porosity. Very rare.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Marc Melcher Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1909.

Rare first obverse legend from Emesa. Unpublished reverse type with the very rare ending, II COS