Watch List notes:

Severus Alexander. AD 222-235. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. 3rd emission, AD 223. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate and draped bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, Mars, helmeted and in military dress, standing left, holding olive branch in right hand and reversed spear in left. RIC IV 21 var. (bust type) corr. (spear vertical, not transverse); Calicó 3089 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE p. 122, note 91; Adda 459 (this coin – conserved since). Lightly toned with underlying luster, scratches. Near EF.

From the Conti Collection. Ex Collection of a California Gentleman (Triton XIV, 4 January 2011), lot 774; Property of a Lady (Part II, Christie's, 8 October 1985), lot 155; Victor A. Adda (†1965) Collection, 459.