Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1035. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DIVUS PERTINAX. Died 193 AD. Æ Sestertius (21.30 gm, 11h). Struck under Septimius Severus, 193 AD. DIVVS PERT PIVS PATER, bare-headed and draped bust right / CONSE-CRATIO, S C in exergue, four-tiered funeral pyre: lowest tier garlanded, middle two tiers arched with statues; uppermost tier draped, flanked by torches, and surmounted by triumphal quadriga. RIC IV 660C (Septimius Severus); Banti 7; BMCRE 480 (Wars of the Succession); Cohen 12. VF, black surfaces with traces of brown, light porosity, minor enhancement in hair. Very rare. ($5000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Birkler & Waddell 1 (7 December 1979), lot 349.