Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1138. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $1660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AR Tridrachm (9.16 gm). Mint in Asia Minor (Caesarea?). Struck circa 198-202 AD. IMP C L SEP SEVERVS P AV, laureate head right / VICTOR-IAE AVG, Victory flying left holding open wreath with both hands; small shield inscribed S P Q R set on low base before. RIC IV 533; Metcalf, 'The Severan 'Cistophori,'' in RIN 1988, 6 (S2/R6); RSC 709. Nice VF, light scratch on obverse, even light porosity. Extremely rare, possibly the second known. ($2000)

The Paris specimen is the only published example of this type.