Sale: Triton X, Lot: 659. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (7.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 209. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / RESTITVTOR VRBIS, Roma seated left, feet set on stool, holding palladium in right hand and scepter in left; behind, round shield set on ground leaning against chair. RIC IV 288 var. (spear); Calicó 2529; BMCRE 358; Cohen 605. Superb EF, lightly toned. A beautiful aureus.