281, Lot: 363. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Geta. AD 209-211. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 29.66 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 211. Laureate head right / Caracalla and Geta in military dress, each holding a spear, standing vis-à-vis and clasping right hands; on left, Liber standing right, holding thyrsus and crowning Geta; on right, Hercules, standing left, holding club and crowning Caracalla. RIC IV 168a; Banti 13. VF, artificial black patina that is chipped on the edge, roughness and long scratch on reverse. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 203, lot 466; Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 407.

Liber and Hercules were the patron deities of Leptis Magna, the hometown of Septimius Severus.