Unpublished Coela Bronze

332, Lot: 170. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Coela. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ (32mm, 15.00 g, 6h). IMP CAESE (sic) SEPT SEVER (S retrograde) PERT AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AEL M-V-NICIP COEL, Genius standing facing, head left, holding statuette of Tyche and cornucopia. Unpublished, but cf. McClean 4140 for similar reverse type on an issue of Commodus. VF, green patina. Apparently unique.

Ex the J. S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 79, 17 September 2008), lot 570.