Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1170. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. Æ Sestertius (20.17 gm, 12h). Æ Medallic As (9.91 gm, 11h). Struck 230 AD. IMP SEV ALE-XANDER AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / P M TR P VIII COS III P P, S C in exergue, Severus Alexander in slow, decorated quadriga right, holding sceptre in left hand and extending right hand. RIC IV 498; Pink III, pg. 16; BMCRE 586; Cohen 378. Good VF, mottled green and red patina, minor smoothing in fields. ($1000)