76, Lot: 72. Estimate $75. Sold for $74. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEVERUS ALEXANDER. 222-235 AD. Æ As (25mm 9.48 gm). Rome mint. Struck 231-235 AD. Laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Spes standing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC IV 650; Cohen 550. Near VF, green patina, minor roughness on reverse. 

From the T. R. McIntosh Collection.