Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV "Aureus" (25mm, 11.67 g, 6h). Indian imitation. IIEPΓCIVIEθIΠT ΛVCINbVI(retrograde E), laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / (6I)OOΓΛI V(symbol)(retrograde quadrate C)CΛ, male figure, wearing Kushan-style attire and mustache, standing left, holding scepter and baldric. RIC IV –; Calicó –; Turner –; L.A. Adams, "The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei," SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 9 (this coin). Good VF, evidence of possibly having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.