349, Lot: 244. Estimate $150. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LACONIA, Gythium. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Assarion (22mm, 4.80 g, 10h). Struck circa AD 202-205. Laureate head right / Aesculapius standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff and sacrificing over altar to left. BCD Peloponnesos –; BCD Peloponnesos II –; NCP p. 61 (pl. O, I); Dura –; BMC 3. Good VF, brown patina, some spots of red and green, minor porosity. Extremely rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.