Sale: Triton V, Lot: 2039. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ORBIANA, wife of Severus Alexander. Æ Sestertius (18.66 gm). Marriage issue, struck 225 AD. SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / CONCORDIA AVGVSTORVM, S C in exergue, Severus Alexander standing right, holding role and clasping hands with Orbiana, veiled, standing left. RIC IV 657 (Severus Alexander); BMCRE 293; Cohen 6. VF, brown patina. Rare. ($750)
From the Robert Schonwalter Collection. Ex Fowler Collection (Stack's, 19-20 June 1969), lot 604; Walter Niggeler Collection (Bank Leu and Münzen und Medaillen, 2-3 November 1967), lot 1427.