Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1046. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DIVUS CARACALLA. Died 217 AD Æ Sestertius (27.24 gm, 12h). Struck by Elagabalus or Severus Alexander, 218 AD or 222 AD. DIVO ANTONINO MAGNO, bare head right / CONSE-CRATIO, S C in exergue, five-tiered funeral pyre: lowest tier draped, middle three tiers arched with statues; uppermost tier draped and surmounted by triumphal quadriga. RIC IV 719 (Severus Alexander); Banti 11; BMCRE pg. 589, || (Elagabalus); Cohen 34. Choice VF, mottled olive and brown patina with traces of red, minor smoothing in fields. Rare. ($1000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 112 (17 October 2001), lot 4359.