★ An extremely rare hexassarion of Septimius Severus from Hadrianaea ★

MYSIA. Hadrianaea. Septimius Severus, 193-211. Hexassarion (Bronze, 34 mm, 22.63 g, 6 h), Menophanes, son of Timokrates, first archon. AYT KAI Λ CЄΠΤ CЄΟΥΗΡOC ΠЄ Laureate head of Septimius Severus to right. Rev. ЄΠ MHNOΦΑNOYC TIMOKPATOYC APX A / AΔPIA-NЄΩN Hermes standing front, head to left, holding purse in his right hand and kerykeion in his left; at his feet to left, ram standing left. Plankenhorn, Mysien, p. 57, 7 ( this coin ). SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. Von Fritze -. Extremely rare. Minor smoothing, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of G. Plankenhorn, ex Gorny & Mosch 269, 9 March 2020, 889, Gorny & Mosch 265, 14 October 2019, 983 and Stuttgarter Münzauktionen 1, 22 November 2010, 337.