452, Lot: 741. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.31 g, 12h). British Victory type. Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. L SEPT SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate bust right, slight drapery / VICTORIAE BRITTANNICAE, S C in exergue, Two Victories hanging round shield on palm tree; bound captive seated to left and right. Cf. RIC IV 818; cf. Banti 166/167 (for obv./rev. types). Brown surfaces, tooled and smoothed, double-strike on reverse. EF. Rare.