Pleasing Portrait

237, Lot: 96. Estimate $150. Sold for $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Ancyra. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (33mm, 18.52 g, 1h). T. Aurelius Modestus, magistrate. Laureate head right / Hera (or city goddess?) standing right, holding scepter and pomegranate(?), facing Zeus standing left, holding uncertain object and scepter; between them at their feet, eagle standing left. SNG von Aulock 3438; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. VF, green patina, a few areas of roughness.

From Collection CR.