Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1159. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (7.42 gm, 12h). Rome mint. Struck 204 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / COS III LVDOS SAECVL FEC, Liber (Bacchus), wearing leopard's skin, standing right, panther at feet, holding cantharus in right hand and thyrsus in left hand, and Hercules standing left, holding club set on ground in right hand and lion's skin draped over left arm, vis-à-vis. RIC IV 257; BMCRE 314; Calicó 2444; Cohen 108. EF. ($10,000)

Ex Freeman & Sear List 9 (Spring 2004), lot 90 (where it sold for $13,000).