389, Lot: 690. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.17 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 202. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / LAETITIA above, TEMPORVM below, ship with mast and sail in center of circus; above, four quadrigae driven left; below, ostrich, lion, zebra, bear and stag right, bull butting left, bear right, head left. RIC 274; RSC 253. Good VF, toned, a few edge splits, flan crack. Rare.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.1 (1994 First Quarter), no. 248.