280, Lot: 219. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 27.46 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 194-195. Laureate head right / Africa standing right, wearing elephant skin headdress, holding grain ears; lion at side. RIC IV 676a; Banti 10. VF, green patina, light scuffs on both sides.

From the Nera Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica E (4 April 1995), lot 3042.