Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1034. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERTINAX. 193 AD. Æ Sestertius (23.75 gm, 6h). IMP CAES P HELV PERTINAX AVG, laureate head right / VOT DECEN TR P COS II, S C across field, Pertinax standing left, holding patera in extended right hand over lighted tripod. RIC IV 24; Woodward, Pertinax pg. 95 (dies 17/C); Banti 22; BMCRE 44; Cohen 58. Near EF, dark green patina, minor smoothing in fields. ($5000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXII/3 (Fall/Winter 1997), lot 92; Helbing (1931), lot 865.