Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 940. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Sestertius (27.80 g, 11h). Struck AD 195. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Roma (or Virtus) standing left, holding parazonium, crowning Septimius who is standing left, holding Victory on globe and spear. RIC IV 702b; Banti 38. VF, green patina, lightly smoothed. Banti records only two examples.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 241.