Ex Williams Collection

CNG 111, Lot: 752. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 7.28 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / VICTORIAE, AVGG in exergue, Victory, winged, draped, holding whip in right hand and reins in left, driving galloping biga right. RIC IV 299; Calicó 2559; BMCRE 369; Biaggi 1109; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Superb EF, lustrous, edge marks, obverse die break. Well struck on a broad flan, and of fine style.

From the Brexit Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 100 (29 May 2017), lot 545; William H. Williams Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 31, 26 October 2005), lot 68.