Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 682. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (3.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 206-209. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate youthful head right / SOSPI-TA-TORI around, IOVI in exergue, Jupiter standing facing, head left, within shrine, pointing downward with right hand and holding vertical scepter in left. RIC 156; RSC 108; BMCRE 507. Near EF, toned, short hairline flan crack, trivial flan flaw on obverse. Rare.
From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Sternberg XII (18 November 1982), lot 665.