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Lot 32048

Estimate: 30 000 USD
Price realized: 35 000 USD
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Septimius Severus (AD 193-211). AV aureus (19mm, 7.21 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 3/5. Emesa, AD 193. IMP CAE L•SEP•SE-V PERT AVG, laureate head of Septimius Severus right / LEG•XIIII-GEM•-M•V• / TR P COS, aquila left between two signa. RIC IV.I 358 (same dies). Calicó 2472. Solidly struck on satiny flan.

From the Monaco Collection. Ex Triton XXIV (19 January 2021), lot 1120

Legio XIV Gemina is one of only four legions of which we currently know for whom aurei were struck. The legion gained the title Martia Victrix (martial and victorious) after the defeat of Queen Boudicca and the Britons, in AD 60.

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