Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 936. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AR Denarius (3.46 gm). Struck 204 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / COS III LVDOS SAECVL FEC, Liber (Bacchus) standing right, holding cup and thrysus, facing Hercules standing left, holding club and lion skin; leopard standing right below Liber. RIC IV 257; BMCRE 315; RSC 109. VF. Rare. ($200)

From the Marc Melcher Collection.

Commemorates the saecular games held in Rome in 204 AD.