366, Lot: 38. Estimate $200. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. AV Aureus (20mm, 2.92 g, 12h). Indian imitation. LNVCAES(retrograde D)N(retrograde D)V up left, IIVTVTV(retrograde R)(retrograde R)P up right, laureate head right / PN DEE • VΛV RCCSI, emperor on horseback right, holding spear. Cf. RIC IV 165; cf. Calicó 2519-21; cf. Turner pl. II 176-8 (all refs for type); L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 8 (this coin). Fine, evidence of possibly having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.