294, Lot: 717. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.83 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 204. Laureate head right / The Dea Caelestis, with elaborate headdress, seated facing, head right, riding right on lion, holding thunderbolt and scepter; below, water gushing from rocks left. RIC IV 266; RSC 222. EF, attractively toned.

From the RCM Collection.