Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1055. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. Augusta, 193 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.30 gm, 1h). Struck 230 AD. IMP SEV ALE-XANDER AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / P M TR P V-IIII COS II P P, S C across field, Sol, nude, standing facing, head left, raising right hand and cradling whip in left arm. RIC IV 500; Pink III, pg. 17; Banti 95; BMCRE 625; Cohen 390. EF, mottled apple-green patina with traces of black and red. ($750)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Superior Stamp & Coin (8-9 December 1995), lot 963; Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), lot 896.