Watch List notes:

Aquilia Severa, second and fourth wife of Elagabalus. . Sestertius, 19.27g (11h). Rome, Late 220 AD. Obv: IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG Bust draped right with ealry coiffure and wearing stephane. Rx: CONCORDIA S - C Concordia standing left holding in right hand patera above lighted and garlanded altar, and in left hand double cornucopia; star in right field. BM 433, pl. 96.8 (same obv. die). Cohen 4 (120 Fr., with engraving, same obv. die). RIC 390 (R2). Exquisite portrait of this very rare empress Aquilia Severa. With a glossy dark green patina. Absolutely untouched surfaces. Slight disturbance of glossy patina from being in the earth at 5h. Virtually Mint State

Ex Hess-Divo 317, 27 October 2010, lot 899. Ex New York Sale XXII, 6 January 2010, lot 197

Comparable to the EF specimens from the same obverse die and with similar patination in J. Schulman's Vierordt Sale, 1923, lot 2008, and Glendining's Hall Sale, 1950, lot 1789. Aquilia Severa's sestertii seem to come from only two obverse dies, namely our die and the second one illustrated in RIC, pl. VII.3. For the relative rarity of the sestertii of Elagabalus' three wives, cf. C. Clay's assemblage of plaster casts of the coins in BM, Vienna, ANS, Oxford, Cambridge, and some from the trade: Julia Paula, 33 specimens, 11 obverse dies; Aquilia Severa, 16 specimens, two obverse dies; Annia Faustina, four specimens, one obverse die