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310, Lot: 294. Estimate $150.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (25mm, 14.32 g, 5h). Laureate head right / Hercules(?) standing facing, head left, wearing chiton and holding club and lion’s(?) skin. SNG France – (but cf. 976 for same type for Commodus); SNG Levante –; SNG Pfälzer –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –. Fine, green patina. Unpublished?.


From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.

Presumably from early in the reign of Septimius, with his later coinage from Seleucia featuring neater fabrics and finer style.