Beschreibung
Material: Bronze
Gewicht: 26,34 g
Septimius Severus; 193-211 AD, Rome, 210-11 AD, Sestertius, 26.34g. Cf. BMC-811 note (type considered doubtful for Septimius). Obv: LSEPT SEVERVS PIVS AVG Head laureate r. Rx: VICTORIAE BRITTANN[I]CAE around, S C in exergue, Victory standing r. erecting trophy, to r. two captives with hands tied behind their backs, namely a standing woman facing and a man seated l. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex CGB, Paris, July 2017. Cohen and Mattingly doubted the existence of this reverse type for Septimius, since they only knew such a sestertius from a in the Tiepolo Catalogue. In recent years a number of clearly authentic specimens of this sestertius have turned up, however, including one in Berlin; the J. S. Wagner specimen in CNG E191, 2008, lot 284; and the example from the Clay Collection offered here.Though the obverse is worn, the reverse of this coin is rather sharp, and of a very famous type. aVF / VF
