CNG 88, Lot: 705. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Pentassarion (25mm, 12.04 g, 1h). Aurelius Gallus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 201-203. Laureate head right / River-god Istrus reclining left, head right, holding tree and leaning on overturned urn. H&J, Nikopolis 8.14.32.11/2 (same dies as illustration); Varbanov 2643 var. (head of river-god to left). Good VF, attractive deep blue-green patina with traces of earthen encrustation and minor corrosion on the obverse.

From Group CEM.