135, Lot: 125. Estimate $75. Sold for $107. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.28 g). Rome mint. Struck 203 AD. Laureate head right / INDVLGENTIA AVG, IN CARTH in exergue, The Dea Caelestis, wearing elaborate headdress, looking front, riding right on lion, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; below, water gushing from rocks at left. RIC IV 266; BMCRE 335; RSC 222. Good VF.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.