Triton XX, Lot: 464. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodicea ad Mare. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 12.62 g, 12h). Struck AD 208-209. AVT • KAI • • CЄOVHPOC CЄ •, laureate bust right, wearing cuirass with aegis and trabea, slight drapery / ΔHMAPX • EΞ • VΠATOC • TO • Γ •, eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; star between legs. McAlee, Severan Group 3, 24 (this coin cited); Prieur 1151 (same obv. die as illustration). EF, toned, tiny flaw before chin. A particularly fine style portrait. One of only three cited by Prieur, three additional in CoinArchives.

Ex Goldberg 72 (5 February 2013), lot 4489; Group CEM (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 1428; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 90.