193 AD - Pertinax

370, Lot: 460. Estimate $750. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Pertinax. AD 193. AR Denarius (17mm, 2.83 g, 6h). Rome mint. Laureate head right / Pertinax standing left, holding roll and sacrificing out of patera over tripod to left. RIC IV 13a; RSC 56. VF, toned, some porosity.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Francis J. Rath, 1973.