*Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 935.* Closing Date: Jan 13, 2003. *SEPTIMIUS
SEVERUS. *193-211 AD. AV Aureus (6.92 gm). Struck 204 AD.
*Estimate $7500 Sold For $5000 *

*SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. *193-211 AD. AV Aureus (6.92 gm). Struck 204 AD.
SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / COS III LVDOS SAECVL FEC, Liber
standing right, holding jug and thyrsus, facing Hercules standing left,
holding club and lion's skin; leopard at feet of Liber to left. RIC IV
257; BMCRE 314; Cohen 108. EF, a few faint scratches in the obverse
field. Very rare. (See color enlargement on plate 14.) ($7500) 

/From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Triton III (1 December 1999), lot
1114; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica/Spink
Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 561./

This aureus, and the following two denarii, commemorate the secular
games held in Rome in 204 AD.

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