Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (22mm, 5.29 g, 12h). Indian imitation. VIVIVIC[...] [...](retrograde P)VIVVPIC, laureate head right / VIV[...] V[...]OIV, emperor on horseback right. Cf. RIC IV 165; cf. Calicó 2519-21; cf. Turner pl. II 176-8 ; cf. L.A. Adams, "The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei," SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 8 (all refs for type). Near VF, deposits in devices, two holes for suspension.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.