306, Lot: 251. Estimate $150. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Geta. AD 193-211. Æ (34mm, 25.56 g, 6h). Hierocleus, prytanis. Struck AD 209–211. Confronted busts of Septimius right and [Geta] left, each laureate and cuirassed, with gorgoneion on breastplate; c/m: ΘЄOY within rectangular incuse / ЄΠ • ΠP • IOVΛIA [ΔOMNO IEPOKΛEOYC] CTPATONIK/Є[Ω]N, Zeus Panamaros on horseback right; [altar] to right. SNG von Aulock 2679 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München 422 (same dies); Karl 299 (same dies); BMC 70; for c/m: Howgego 536. VF, brown surfaces.

The portrait of Geta has been removed as part of the damnatio memoriae following his murder in AD 212.

The reverse legends on the von Aulock and Munich specimens are barely legible and the Karl coin was misread. Only BMC 70 has the correct legend, which is the reference Leschorn cites in his Lexicon. Why the IEPOKΛEOYC is prefaced by IOVΛIA ΔOMNO is unclear.