149, Lot: 362. Estimate $100. Sold for $82. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.74 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 203. Laureate head right / INDVLGENTIA AVG, IN CARTH in exergue, The Dea Caelestis, wearing elaborate headdress, looking front, riding right on lion, holding drum and sceptre; below, water gushing from rocks at left. RIC IV 267a; RSC 219a. VF, porous. An extreme rarity with drum instead of thunderbolt.