Triton XIV, Lot: 756. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.98 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Struck AD 205-211. AYT • KAI • CЄOYHPOC CЄB, laureate head right / ΔHMAPX • ЄΞ YΠATO • Γ •, eagle standing facing on thigh of sacrificial animal, head and tail right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. McAlee 658-659 var. (placement of obv. legend); Prieur 200 var. (same); Bellinger 3 var. (same). EF, lustrous. Very rare obverse die variety without the B of CЄB below the head.