Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1552. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

OTACILIA SEVERA. Augusta, 244-249 AD. Æ Sestertius (19.47 g, 1h). Struck 245 AD. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / PVDICITIA AVG, S C in exergue, Pudicitia seated left, drawing veil from face with right hand, cradling sceptre in left arm. RIC IV 209a (Philip I); Banti 12; Hunter -; Cohen 55. Good VF, wonderful red-brown patina with hues of green. ($500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection. Ex Kritt FPL 32 (September 1997), no. 64.