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348, Lot: 477. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Caesarea Germanica. Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. Æ (32mm, 22.33 g, 12h). AVT K ΠЄCK NIΓPY IOVCTOC CЄB, laureate head right / KAICAPЄIAC ΓЄPMANIKHC, Apollo standing left, holding patera and branch. SNG Righetti 617; CNG 69, lot 979 var. (obv. legend); Lindgren I 106 var. (same). VF, rough dark brown patina. Extremely rare. The CNG specimen realized a hammer of $3,000 (June 2005).


From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex J. P. Righetti Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 227, 10 February 2010), lot 277 (lot mis-described as Septimius Severus).