Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 954. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (6.92 gm). Struck 195 AD. Emesa mint. IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, laureate head right / ROMA AETERNA, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory in right hand, spear in left; shield on ground behind. RIC IV -; BMCRE -; Hunter -; Cohen -. EF, light marks in fields. Extremely rare eastern mint aureus. Unpublished. (See color enlargement on plate 15.)($10,000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Triton III (1 December 1999), lot 1115; Lanz 74 (20 November 1995), lot 591.