Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 973. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA DOMNA, wife of Septimius Severus. AV Aureus (7.33 gm). Struck 198-207 AD. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / DIANA LVCIFERA, Diana standing left, holding long torch with both hands. RIC IV 548 note (Septimius); BMCRE 14 (Septimius); Cohen 31. EF, traces of mounting on edge. (See color enlargement on plate 14.) ($4000) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Dreesmann Collection, Part I (Spink, 13 April 2000), lot 9; Stack's (29 March-1 April 1987), lot 1199.