Ex Vicomte de Sartiges Collection

CNG 106, Lot: 791. Estimate $10000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 6.72 g, 12h). Rome mint. Proclamation issue, circa April AD 222. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS P P, Severus Alexander, laureate and togate, standing in slow quadriga left, holding branch in right hand and scepter in left. RIC IV 16 var. (break in obv. legend); Calicó 3087 var. (same); BMCRE 11 var. (same); Biaggi 1321 var. (same); Sartiges 292 (this coin). Good VF, a few light marks, scratch on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Continental Collection; Vinchon (24 April 1996), lot 81; Rauch 50 (19 April 1993), lot 334; Hess-Leu 41 (24 April 1969), lot 394; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection (Ars Classica XVIII, 10 October 1938), lot 377.