{"product_id":"1066739-coin-septimius-severus-julia-domna-aureus-201-rome-ms-65-70-gold","title":"Septimius Severus \u0026 Julia Domna, Aureus, 200-201, Rome, Gold, MS(65-70)","description":"\u003cp id=\"head\"\u003eLaureate bust of Septimius Severus to right, his shoulders heroically bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"reverse\"\u003eDraped bust of Julia Domna to right, wearing a round earring under her hair waved in six waves and pulled back in a bun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"comment\"\u003eThe coin we offer for sale, beyond its outstanding state of preservation - having virtually never circulated - its bewitching patina and its pedigree (detailed below), is above all a type of an insignificant rarity. Among the already scarce aureus on which Septimius Severus appears with members of his family, those with Julia Domna and the emperor with a naked bust are the rarest. One remains amazed by the fineness of the engraving and the expressiveness of the portraits of the imperial couple and by the care given to the hair and beard details. Moreover, one will appreciate a beautifully centered strike without any weaknesses.\r\nThis aureus comes from the Nomos 24 auction of May 22, 2022 (lot #417) and sold on behalf of a Swiss bank. It previously passed through Numismatica Ars Classica 52 on October 7, 2009 (lot #507), Numismatica Fine Arts XXVI on August 14, 1991 (lot #277), and from the sale of the collection of V. M. Brand, part 3, Sotheby's Zurich, June 9, 1983 (lot #368). The coin was originally acquired from Spink, in London in 1910 and comes from the find in the Gertrudenstrasse in Cologne\/Koln (CHRE 5289). This treasure was discovered in 1909 by workers during the foundation work of a building. It is an exceptional and colossal set of more than 22,500 gold and silver coins where most of the thousands of coins identified are dated from the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla. The decomposition of the container in which they were hidden gave the coins of this treasure a very particular patina with magnificent purplish reflections, which can be admired without end on our aureus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"headCaption\"\u003eSEVERVS AVG PART MAX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"reverseCaption\"\u003eIVLIA AVGVSTA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"weight\"\u003e7.57 gr\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"cdma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43899576287461,"sku":"1066739","price":160000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/1655\/7029\/files\/1066739A_e8680471-c1c6-4688-a20c-312c599ae260.jpg?v=1728478283","url":"https:\/\/www.numiscorner.com\/products\/1066739-coin-septimius-severus-julia-domna-aureus-201-rome-ms-65-70-gold","provider":"Numiscorner.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}