309, Lot: 159. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Pautalia. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (28mm, 13.03 g, 6h). AVT K M Λ CEΠT CΕVHPOC (ΠE), laureate head right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak. Cf. Ruzicka 380; cf. Varbanov 4725. VF, green patina, smoothing/cleaning scratches in fields.

The obverse legends on the examples known to Ruzicka were incomplete. His reconstruction of the second portion of the legend is similar to what is given above, but does not include the final “E”. Ruzicka’s obverse legend was followed by Varbanov.