CNG 99, Lot: 450. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (34mm, 23.29 g, 6h). Leontus, son of Alcaeus, magistrate. Confronted busts of Septimius Severus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Julia Domna left, draped; c/m’s: helmeted head of Athena right within oval incuse and ΘЄOV within rectangular incuse / Hekate standing facing, head left, sacrificing from patera over altar with right hand, holding torch in left. SNG von Aulock 2673; SNG Copenhagen 504; SNG München 421; Karl 291 (all from the same dies); for c/m’s: Howgego 188 and 536. Good VF, dark brown-green patina.

Ex Helios 5 (25 June 2010), lot 765.