VICTORIAE BRIT

Triton XIX, Lot: 595. Estimate $50000. Sold for $47500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / VICT OR IAE BRIT, Victory, winged and draped, advancing left, holding up wreath in right hand and palm frond upright in left. RIC IV 334; Calicó 2564; BMCRE 60 (same dies); Biaggi –; SCBC 649 (same dies). EF, toned, underlying luster. Very rare.

Struck to celebrate the success of the Roman military campaigns in Scotland from AD 209 through early AD 211.