383, Lot: 550. Estimate $100. Sold for $101. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 17.94 g, 12h). Rome mint. 15th emission, AD 232. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Mars Ultor running right, holding spear and shield. RIC IV 635; BMCRE 846-7; Banti 49 var. (break in rev. legend). VF, brown patina, traces of deposits on obverse.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 138 (23 March 2006), lot 285.

The reverse of this Sestertius features Mars in his most forceful appearance, as Mars Ultor, Mars the Avenger.