From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 441. Realized: US$1250 Septimius Severus. (193-211 AD). Silver denarius (3.42 gm). Rome, 206 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, head laureate right / LAETITIA TEMPORVM, the spina of the Circus Maximus decorated as a ship facing left, with the turning posts at its prow and stern, a sail mounted on the central obelisk, and the spina’s other monuments visible in between; above the ship, four quadrigas racing left; below, seven animals: an ostrich at left and bear at right; between them a lion and a lioness chasing a wild ass and a panther attacking a bison. BMCRE 343. RIC 274 (R2). Cohen 253 (60 Fr.). Very fine. Sold for $1250 [ $1437.5, or approx 991.875 EUR, 733.125 GBP Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)