156, Lot: 232. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. Æ Dupondius (23mm, 10.76 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 228. Radiate head right / Severus standing left, in military dress, extending right hand and holding sceptre. RIC IV 601; BMCRE 546; Cohen 516 var.. VF, dark green, almost black, patina, some rubbing on the high points, light roughness, hairline flan crack. Rare.

This issue commemorates the restoration of the coinage under Severus Alexander, including his foresaking the antoninianus and his reintroduction of the dupondius