318, Lot: 708. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.12 g, 6h). Emesa mint. Struck AD 194-195. Laureate head right / VICT AVG, Victory standing left on a globe, holding wreath and palm frond. RIC IV 424 var. (without the globe); RSC 675a var. (same). VF, porosity. Very rare variety.

Curtis Clay knows of two specimens for this variety: 1) Curtis Clay Collection, formerly part of the Marc Melcher Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 1716 (part of); and 2) Göttweig Monastery Collection, Austria.