Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 945. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (7.36 gm). Struck 209 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / VIRTVS AVGVSTORVM, Septimius, Caracalla, and Geta in military dress on horses prancing left, each raising their right hand. RIC IV 305; BMCRE 374; Cohen 770. Good VF. Rare. ($5000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Dreesmann Collection, Part I (Spink London, 13 April 2000), lot 6; Giessener Münzhandlung 36 (8 April 1987), lot 509a.