“Good Luck”

Triton XIX, Lot: 599. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. Severans. Early 3rd century AD. AV Imitation “Quinarius” (15mm, 2.91 g, 5h). Barbarous imitation. AИOVD (retrograde C)ΛVOИI, laureate head right / OXPΩMEN, lion advancing left; EVTVXV (Good Luck in Greek) in exergue. Apparently unpublished. EF, obverse and reverse die flaws.

For similar imitative types used as jewelry, see King, Elagabalus 1 = Göbl, Antike 2615, and Göbl, Antike 2616