Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1536. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. AV Aureus (10.27 g [including mount], 6h). Struck 222 AD. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P COS P P, Mars standing front, head left, holding branch in extended right hand, spear in left. RIC IV 6; Calicó 3075a; BMCRE 26; Cohen 206 var. (no cuirass). VF, mounted in antiquity (mount broken and repaired), a few light marks in fields. ($2000)