Triton XVIII, Lot: 882. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Adana. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ (38mm, 25.20 g, 6h). AVT · KAI[C · M ·] AVP ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB ·, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [AΔ]P [CЄ]V ANTΩNIN[I]A–NΩN AΔANЄΩN, Zeus Nicephorus seated left; at feet, eagle standing left, head right. Levante, Adana –; SNG Levante –; SNG France –; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Pfälzer –; SNG Leypold –; Lindgren –. Good VF, green patina, minor roughness, scratches on forehead and before bust. Possibly unpublished.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection. Ex La Galerie Numismatique IX (14 January 2007), lot 539.

An interesting coin struck late in Caracalla’s reign. This appears to be the earliest coin of Adana to name the city as “Severan” and “Antonine”. All earlier coins of the imperial era in Levante’s catalog bear either the honorific title “AΔPIANΩN" or a similar, shortened form.