Pertinax. AD 193. AV Aureus (21mm, 7.20 g, 12h). Rome mint. IMP CAES P • HELV PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / PROVID DEOR COS II, Providentia, draped, standing left, raising right hand toward large star, left hand on breast. RIC IV 10/11 (for obv./rev. dies); Woodward, Pertinax dies 3/– (unlisted rev. die); Calicó 2387 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 10/11 (for obv./rev. dies); Biaggi 1045 (same obv. die); Jameson 155 var. (two hands toward star); Mazzini 39 var. (same). Small scrape on obverse, traces of deposits, some faint hairlines. EF. Great portrait.

From the Provence Collection.