Triton XVIII, Lot: 1173. Estimate $750. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aquilia Severa. Augusta, AD 220-221 & 221-222. Æ Sestertius (29.5mm, 22.24 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Elagabalus. IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / CONCO[RDIA], S C across field, Concordia, draped, standing left, cradling double cornucopia in left arm and sacrificing out of patera in right hand over garlanded and lighted altar to left; [star in right field]. RIC IV 390 (Elagabalus); Thirion 482; Banti 4; BMCRE 432-3 (Elagabalus). Near VF, brown surfaces, some red, green, and earthen deposits, pit on reverse deletes star, hairline flan crack, areas of minor roughness and smoothing. Rare.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Kovacs XV (1 October 2003), lot 371.