[Barry P. Murphy]

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AVPrice
Aureus (6.92 gm). Struck 195 AD. Emesa     $  € 8.244
mint.    10,500      £ 5.724

IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II,Rates for 1/9/2004
laureate head right / ROMA AETERNA,
Roma seated left on cuirass, holding 
Victory in right hand, spear in left;
shield on ground behind. RIC IV -;
BMCRE -; Hunter -; Cohen -; Calico
2534 (this coin). Nice EF, a few minor
field marks. Apparently a unique
variety. Extremely rare eastern mint     
aureus. Unpublished.

Ex Triton III (1 December 1999), lot
1115 @ $18,400; Lanz 74 (20 November     
1995), lot 591. list

There are fewer than 20 Emesa mint
Aurei known of all reverse types, of 
which this is one of the finest.