Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 443. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Philippopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Tetrassarion (30mm, 16.71 g, 1h). Pythian Games issue. Struck AD 215. AVT K M AVP CEVH ANTWNEINOC, laureate head right / KOINON QRAKWN A L EXANDRIA, EN FILIPPO/POLI in two lines in exergue, Zeus Nikephorus enthroned left, holding Nike standing right on globe in outstretched right hand and long scepter in left; PV QI/A across field. Mouchmov, Philippopolis -; Klose & Stumpf -; Mouchmov 5332; SNG Copenhagen -; Varbanov 1300. EF, attractive green patina with areas of brown.