455, Lot: 311. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Septimius Severus. AD 193-211. Æ As (25.5mm, 9.97 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 194. Laureate head right / Mars advancing right, holding spear and trophy. RIC IV 683. Dark green-brown patina, some smoothing on obverse. Near EF.

From the Jack A. Frazer Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, November 1998.