Watch List notes:

Pescennius Niger, 193-194. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.42 g, 12 h), Antiochia. IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVS AV Laureate head of Pescennius Niger to right. Rev. FORTVNAF (sic!) REDVC Fortuna standing front, head to left, holding long palm frond in her right hand and cornucopiae in her left. BMC -. Cohen -. Lanz 114 (2003), 447 (same dies). RIC -. An extremely rare variety with a curious spelling error on the reverse. Good very fine.


From the collection of Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Lang, ex Triton XIV, 4 January 2011, 746.