63, Lot: 93. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. Æ Dupondius (23mm, 10.76 gm). Radiate head right / Emperor standing left, in military dress, extending right hand and holding sceptre. RIC IV 601; Cohen 516. VF, dark green-brown patina. Rare.

This issue commemorates the restoration of the coinage under Severus Alexander, including his foresaking the antoninianus and his reintroduction of the dupondius.