Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.08 g, 12h). Indian imitation. SEVEБYSVI PIVSVΛC, laureate head right; P in legend with long horizontal bar at base / I(double quadrate letter)MTP P XIII COS III PP, Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; at feet to left, eagle standing left with head right. Cf. RIC IV 196; cf. Calicó 2508; cf. Turner pl. II 171-2 (all refs for type); L.A. Adams, "The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei," SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 3 (this coin). Good VF, slightly wavy flan, evidence of having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.