Watch List notes:

Lot of three bronze diobols of Septimius Severus, Geta as Caesar, and Maximinus I, the last ex Dattari. (1) Septimius Severus, AE 24, possibly Year 6 = 197/8 AD, 10.51g. Head of Septimius laureate right / Bust of bearded god right. Unattributable until better specimens appear; the obverse die should be identifiable. (2) Geta as Caesar, AE 20-23.5, date illegible but possibly Year 8 = 199/200 AD, 8.17g. Bare-headed bust right / Caracalla and Geta in military dress, standing facing one another and sacrificing at an altar between them. Cf. Dattari-Savio pl. 222, 4082 (Year 8) and Emmett 2808 (citing only the Dattari coin of Year 8). (3) Maximinus I, AE 22-23, date illegible, 9.27g. Obv: AVTO MAΞIMINOC EVC CE (weak) Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: Nike seated left holding wreath and palm, date in lower left field illegible. Stated to be ex Dattari, but not illustrated in Dattari-Savio. Unpublished, only the second Alexandrian bronze coin known for the reign of Maximinus I, after a unique bronze drachm of Year 1 that appeared in Sotheby's Jungfleisch Sale of 9 March 1972, and is now in the collection of John Aiello (Emmett 3309/1). Perhaps our new diobol is also of Year 1, like the drachm; on the other hand its Nike seated reverse type appeared on the reign's tetradrachms only in Year 4 (Emmett 3291 and 3326). This coin was mistakenly interpreted as a tetradrachm by its previous owner, but its characteristics are certainly those of a diobol: beveled edge, thinner and lighter flan than those used for tetradrachms, no trace of silver in the metal, types struck from slightly smaller dies.