366, Lot: 42. Estimate $400. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (21mm, 7.15 g, 6h). Indian imitation. SVEV(retrograde S)VT|- PIVS ΛVT, laureate head right / GVБT(ΛV)SVTSVTOTV(retrograde S)T, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond. Cf. RIC IV 297; cf. Calicó 2567 (both refs for type); Turner –; L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 4 (this coin). Near VF, possible test cut across portrait, evidence of prior mounting.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Los Angeles County Museum of Art (deaccessioned before September 1989).