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Auction 339  22 Oct 2020
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Lot 114

Starting price: 750 CHF
Price realized: 1400 CHF
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ROMAN COINS. COINS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
JULIA DOMNA, wife of Septimius Severus, died AD 217. Sestertius, about 211. AE 22.34 g. IVLIA PIA - FELIX AVG Draped, bare-headed bust r., hair waved in rows. Rev. MAT AVGG MAT SEN M PATR / SC (mater Augustorum, mater senatus, mater patriae). Domna, wearing long dress, seated l. on throne with high back-rest, holding scepte in her l. hand, branch in her outstretched r. hand. BMC 469, 214; C. 166; RIC 310, 588.
Rare. Nice blackish­green patina, slightly smoothed. Almost extremely fine

Provenance:
Auction Adolph Hess AG, Lucerne - AG Leu & Co., Zürich 16 April 1957 ("Zum Andenken an Dr. Jacob Hirsch"), 393.
Auction Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel 35 (1967), 91.
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