Severus Alexander, AE42 medallion of Perinthos, Thrace. AD 222-235.
 
AYT KM AYR CEYH ALEZANDROC AYG, laureate, draped bust right.
PERINIQIWN IWNWN (sic) DIC NEWKORWN, Ares, naked, standing right, holding upright 
spear in right hand and bow in left.

Varbanov 471; Schönert-Geiss 780; Paris 1017; Mionnet I, 317; Schlessinger Hermitage theft sale, 487 (this coin).

In 1934 Stalins's communist hoards ransacked the Hermitage collection in 
St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and stole nearly 2,000 valuable gold, silver and 
bronze coins. These were sent to Felix Schlessinger in Berlin for sale, the 
financial proceeds of which were used for the communist "cause". 1,655 coins 
were auctioned at Schlessinger's auction, 4th-6th Febraury 1935 described 
obscurely as "aus Museumsbesitz" ("from the possession of a museum").
The display cases which contained the stolen coins in the Hermitage now 
show empty spaces, in the heartbreaking hope that the coins will one day 
"come back home".