VICTORIAE BRIT

Triton XVII, Lot: 746. Estimate $50000. Sold for $70000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / VICT OR IAE BRIT, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in right hand, cradling palm frond in left. RIC IV 334; Calicó 2564; Biaggi –; BMCRE 60 (same rev. die); SCBC 649. Superb EF, lightly toned. Very rare.

Struck to celebrate the success of the Roman military campaigns in Scotland from AD 209 through early AD 211.