Rare and Interesting Nicomedia Bronze of Septimius

301, Lot: 168. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicomedia. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (34mm, 23.71 g, 7h). Radiate head right / Two temples above CЄVHPOV/ BACIΛЄYON/TOC O KOCMOC/ ЄVTVXI MAKA/PIOI NIKO(MH)/ΔЄIC in six lines. RG 191 var. (obv. legend, without temples on rev.); Weiser –; SNG von Aulock –; J. Nollé, “Eutychos tois kyriois – feliciter dominis!: Akklamationsmünzen des griechischen Ostens unter Septimius Severus und städtische Mentalitäten,” Chiron 28 (1998), p. 346. VF, untouched dark brown patina with thick encrustation. Extremely rare.

The reverse legend reads: “under the rule of Severus the universe prospers, blessed (are) the citizens of Nicomedia.”