CNG 88, Lot: 704. Estimate $150. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 12.17 g, 8h). Aurelius Gallus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 201-203. Laureate head right, slight drapery on shoulder / Dionysus standing left, holding grape bunch and thyrsus; at feet to left, panther seated left, head right. H&J, Nikopolis 8.14.8.5; Varbanov 2601. Good VF, olive-green patina.

From Group CEM. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 60 (5 October 1992), lot 447.