Triton XVI, Lot: 701. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 202-205. Æ (41mm, 20.90 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysius, magistrate. AV · KPA KAI [M] AVP AИ · KAI ΘЄ C-ЄB ИЄ · TCΛAVTIΛ-ΛAИ (sic), confronted busts of Plautilla right, draped and wearing stephane, and Caracalla left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed / [CTP]ATOИЄIKЄΩИ ЄΠI TΩИ Π-Є-P TB KΛ ΔIOИVC-[IOИ], Zeus Panamaros, holding scepter in left hand, on horseback right; altar to right. SNG von Aulock 2695 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; cf. SNG Keckman 262 (from a different rev. die that appears to have a slightly varying arrangement of the legend; same obv. die); Karl 305 (same dies). Good VF, slightly rough dark green and black patina. Excellent for type and lacking the usual countermark. With unusually well preserved legends, the obverse of which, in panegyric style, lauds the divinity of the “new goddess” Plautilla (or rather Tslautilla!).