CNG 91, Lot: 567. Estimate $400. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALATIA, Tavium. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (27mm, 1.48 g, 12h). Laureate head right / River-god Halys reclining left, leaning on overturned amphora from which water flows, placing hand on gallery and holding branch. BMC 12 (same dies); SNG France 2654 (same dies). Good VF, tan-brown patina, light scratches in fields.

From Group CEM. Ex Sternberg XI (20 November 1981), lot 380.