Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 546. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Caesarea-Germanica. Pescennius Niger. 193-194 AD. Æ 29mm (11.67 g, 8h). Laureate head right / Zeus(?) standing left, holding long sceptre. Cf. RG 6 (Artemis; same obv. die); Bland, et. al., "The mints of Pescennius Niger in the Light of Some New Aurei," NumChron (1987), -; SNG Copenhagen -; cf. SNG von Aulock 478 (Zeus Nikephorus; same obv. die). Fine, brown surfaces, centering holes. Extremely rare. ($1000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.