★ Ex curator of the MFA Boston ★

Severus Alexander (222-235) AE as. Rome, 12.65g, 24mm.
Obv: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: MARS VLTOR S C; Mars advancing right with spear and shield
RIC IVii 637
From the Severus Alexander collection, ex Noble Numismatics Auction 122 lot 3326 (part of), 21.11.2019 (Ex Triton III [Nov. 1999], lot 1720 (part) and previously the Collection of Cornelius C. Vermeule III).
Neatly holed above the S in MARS, straight through the rim; dings on portrait.

C. C. Vermeule III was curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1957 to 1996 and a well known numismatist.