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LOT 3222
Severus Alexander AE As. AD 222-235.
Rome mint; struck AD 231. IMP SEV ALE-XANDER AVG, laureate head to right, light drapery on far shoulder / PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, the Emperor on horseback to left, raising his right hand and holding spear with his left; S C in exergue. RIC IV 595b; Cohen 490 var.; BMCRE 751. Near Very Fine. Tooled. Very rare.(11.28gr, 26mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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