From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 439 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$12500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$17000 
                  Pertinax. Gold aureus 



             



            Pertinax. (193 AD). Gold aureus (7.20 gm). Rome. IMP CAES P 
            HELV—PERTIN AVG, bust laureate, draped right / PROVID—DEOR COS II, 
            female figure standing left, raising both forearms towards radiate 
            globe in sky. BMCRE 12. RIC 11b (R2). Calico 2390 (this coin). Cohen 
            41 (300 Fr.). Woodward, NC 1957, obverse die Draped 2 (BMCRE pl. 
            1.18), reverse die not illustrated. A small test cut between the E 
            and the L in the obverse legend at 11:00 has been closed by a 
            restorer. Good extremely fine/good very fine. 

            Ex NAC 34, 24 November 2006, lot 36; ex NAC 23, 19 March 2002, lot 
            1592; ex Hess, 9 May 1951, lot 197. 




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  ... Lot 439 sold for high bid of $17000 [ $19550, or approx 13489.5 EUR, 9970.5 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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