Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 948. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (7.01 gm). Struck 210 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head left / VICTORIAE, AVGG in exergue, Victory, holding reins and whip, driving biga right. RIC IV 299 var. (head right); BMCRE 369 var. (same); Cohen 712 var. (same). EF, ex jewelry, light scratches in reverse fields. Apparently unpublished variety. (See color enlargement on plate 14.) ($5000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Lanz 102 (28 May 2001), lot 681; Leu 28 (5-6 May 1981), lot 491.