Very Rare Caesarea Issue for Niger

CNG 99, Lot: 669. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. AR Denarius/Drachm (19mm, 2.89 g, 11h). Caesarea mint. IMP CΛES • C PESCE NIGER IVST • ΛVC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMΛPX I CΞ (sic) VΠΛTOC, calathus containing three grain ears; CT Λ (date) in exergue. Cf. T.V. Buttrey, "The Denarii of Pescennius Niger,” NC 152 (1992), p. xix, fig. 6 (for rev., but with traditional-style portrait); cf. CNG E-320, lot 457 (same). EF, porous. Very rare.