Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1056. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ORBIANA, wife of Severus Alexander. Augusta, 225-227 AD. Æ Sestertius (17.28 gm, 12h). Struck 225 AD. SAL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / CONCORDIA AVGVS-TORVM, S C in exergue, Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera in extended right hand and cradling double cornucopiae in left arm. RIC IV 655 (Severus Alexander); Pink III, pg. 19; Banti 1; BMCRE 293 (Severus Alexander); Cohen 4. Good VF, mottled green and olive patina with traces of red. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 100, 20 November 2000), lot 199; George Bauer Collection (Glendining, 23 January 1963), lot 1378; M. L. Vierordt Collection (J. Schulman, 5 March 1923), lot 2068 (where it realized NGL 85); H. C. Hoskier Collection (J. Hirsch XX, 13 November 1907), lot .