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Buy or Bid Sale 198  7 July 2016
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Lot 400

Starting price: 123 USD
Price realized: 150 USD
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Septimius Severus; 193-211 AD, Eastern Mint, 194-5 AD, Denarius, 2.93g. Obv. legend var. of BM-345 note, C-69 (3 Fr.), and RIC-370. Obv: IMP CAE L SEV (sic) SEV - PERT AVG COS II Head laureate r. Rx: CERERI - FRVG Ceres standing l., not veiled, holding wheat ears and long torch. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection. Scarce Eastern reverse type: only four specimens in Reka Devnia hoard with reverse legend either CERERI or just CERER FRVG. With interesting spelling error in obverse legend, SEV SEV in place of the correct SEP SEV. Another specimen from the same dies: Barry Murphy's Severan Denarii site, no. 237. . Fine (175)
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