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Auction 98  12 December 2016
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Lot 1246

Estimate: 1250 CHF
Price realized: 1800 CHF
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The Roman Empire
Septimius Severus, 193 – 211

Sestertius 195, Æ 24.25 g. L SEPT SEV PERT – AVG IMP VII Laureate bust r., with drapery on l. shoulder. Rev. DIVI M PII F P M TR P III COS II P P S – C Felicitas standing l., r. foot on prow, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. C 124 var. (no drapery). BMC 572. RIC 701.
Struck on a broad flan and with a brown-green patina, an almost
invisible scratch on obverse, otherwise good very fine

Ex Brueder Egger XLIII, 1913, Herzfelder, 1354; Glendining's 16-21 November 1950, Platt-Hall II, 1683; Lanz 100, 2000, Benz, 39 and Gorny & Mosch 215, 2013, 1072 sales.
A nice early portrait type of Septimius Severus. AMP.

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