179, Lot: 304. Estimate $150.
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ROMAN. Imperial. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. PB Seal (22 mm, 17.86 g). Uniface. SEV AVG; TIB below laureate head right. Rosovtsew -. VF, brown surfaces.
Bearing the imperial portrait, seals such as this may have been used in an official capacity, such as the sealing of imperial dispatches or provincial rescripts carried along the cursus publicus, or imperial post highway, by the frumentarii, or im
