400, Lot: 670. Estimate $200. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ As (26mm, 11.13 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 208. Laureate head right / P M TR P XVI, high arched bridge with colonnaded towers at each end; boat in river below; COS III P P/S C in exergue. RIC IV 786c. Near VF, dark green patina with patches of red, smoothed and tooled, old collection number written in ink in right obverse field. Very rare.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Reportedly ex Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL X, no. 38. Includes old coin holder with handwritten ticket.

This rare coin copies the Danubian bridge type of Trajan (RIC II 569), and is possibly the bridge over the Firth of Forth, built for Severus’ British campaigns.