Watch List notes:

Pertinax. Denarius; Pertinax; 193 AD, Alexandria, Denarius, 2.45g. C-43 (50 Fr.); cf. BM-13 and RIC-11a (mint of Rome). Obv: IMP CAES P HELV - PERTIN AV[G] Head laureate r. Rx: PROVID - DEOR COS II The Human Race standing l., raising both forearms towards star in field. Ex Berk 53, 27 April 1988, lot 315. Much scarcer than Pertinax' commonest Alexandrian denarius, with type OPI DIVIN, but not as rare as his third Alexandrian type, PROVID DEOR with the figure stretching out her whole arms, not just her forearms, towards the star. These Alexandrian denarii of Pertinax are not in the standard catalogues, because they have only recently been distinguished from his Rome-mint pieces; see for example R. Bickford-Smith, Rivista ital. di numismatica XCVI, 1994/5, p. 54.. EF

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