Triton XIX, Lot: 360. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Julia Domna. AD 193-211. Æ (37mm, 21.80 g, 6h). Cl. Aristeas, magistrate. AV KA[I Λ C]Є CЄO-VHPO[C I]-OVΛ[IA Δ]OMN AV, confronted busts of Severus right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Domna left, draped; c/m’s: helmeted head right within circular incuse and ΘЄOY within rectangular incuse / ЄΠIMЄΛHTI [K]Λ APICTЄ A C-TPA-TONIK-ЄΩN, facing cult statue of Artemis Ephesia flanked by stags; star and crescent flanking head. SNG von Aulock 2670 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München –; Karl –; BMC –; for c/m’s: Howgego 188 and 536. VF, brown surfaces. Rare and exceptional.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 41 (18 June 1970), lot 405; Birkler & Waddell II (11 December 1980), lot 404.

The reverse legend employs a lengthier than usual form of epimeletes, the title for a supervisor of the production of coins.