70, Lot: 88. Estimate $75. Sold for $42. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.96 gm). Struck 202-210 AD. Laureate head right / The Dea Caelestis, with elaborate headdress, riding right on lion, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; below, water gushing from rocks on left. RIC IV 266; RSC 222. Good VF, obverse scratch.

From the Marc Melcher Collection.