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Rare Bust Type

292, Lot: 400. Estimate $150.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.71 g, 6h). Laodicea mint. Struck AD 196. Laureate and cuirassed bust right; aegis on breastplate / Pax seated left, holding branch and scepter. RIC IV 490a var. (bust type); RSC 444 var. (same). Good VF, toned, small deposit on neck. Rare and attractive bust type.


For other specimens struck from this obverse die, see: CNG 61, lot 1919 (Providentia reverse); CNG 73, lot 946 (same reverse die as current coin); and Spink 123, lot 1141 = The Barry Murphy Collection, SEV-150 (Providentia reverse).