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Auction 102  18 May 2016
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Lot 1033

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 2200 USD
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Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.95 g, 1h). Eastern imitation. Struck AD 198 or shortly after (when Severus became imperator for the eleventh time). L SPPT SEV ΔVC IΔΛD XI PΛRT MΛX, laureate head right / VOTOHCΛ I RP COS II, Severus, togate and with hem of toga drawn over head, standing left, holding patera over lighted tripod. RIC IV –; Calicó –; cf. BMCRE 121 and pl. 56, 6 (Aequitas rev. [barbarous]; for obv.); Biaggi –; cf. Numismatica Ars Classica 88, 663 (Hilaritas rev., but same obv. die). EF, areas of toning in devices, traces of die rust, slight double strike on reverse. Very rare.

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