Triton XVI, Lot: 1104. Estimate $20000. Sold for $26000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.06 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 209. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / LIBERALITAS, AVGG VI in exergue, distribution scene: Geta, Septimius Severus, and Caracalla seated left on curule chairs on platform; behind them stands a lictor, before them stands Liberalitas, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopia in left; to left, citizen, togate, mounting steps of platform, holding out fold of toga with both hands. RIC IV 279 var. (break in rev. legend); Calicó 2481 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 352 var. (same). EF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 669; Berk BBS 144 (13 July 2005), lot 22.