From the Fox and Walter Collections
Triton XIV, Lot: 764. Estimate $750. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Geta. AD 209-211. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.29 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 211. P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / LIBERALI TAS AVG V, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding abacus up in right hand and cornucopia in left; globe at feet to left. RIC IV 89; RSC 68a; BMCRE 65 note. Superb EF, toned, green deposits on obverse. Excellent silver quality. Struck from artistic dies.
From the C.K. Collection. Ex James Fox Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1587; John Whitney Walter Collection (Stack’s, 29 November 1990), lot 72.