Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2
Lot: 386

ROMAN EMPIRE. Pertinax (AD 193). Gold aureus (7.22 gm). 
Rome. IMP CAES P HELV-PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / 
PROVID-DEOR COS II, female figure standing left, raising 
both forearms towards radiate globe in sky. BMCRE 11. 
Cohen 42 (300 Fr.). RIC 11a (R2). From A.M. Woodward's 
obverse die Laureate 5, NC 1957, pl. x, 1 and x, 14, and 
his reverse die Provid. Deor. (I) F, pl. x, 11. This die 
combination was known to Woodward, according to p. 88, 
Fig. 1. Beautiful portrait. Extremely fine 

Estimated Value: $ 15,000 

...Sold for $14,000 USD [ approx 10640 EUR, 7420 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
                      and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).