Very Rare Serdica Issue

225, Lot: 251. Estimate $200. Sold for $245. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Serdica. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ 26mm (12.09 g, 12h). T. Statilius Barbarus, hegesiarch. Struck AD 196-198. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / River-god reclining left, holding reed and resting on overturned amphora from which water flows. Ruzicka -; Moushmov 4781. VF, green patina. Very rare.

Ex Lanz 125 (28 November 2005), lot 846.