Countermarked by Tium

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1160. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 31.83 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 211-213. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right; c/m: large H with four-rayed star below; to left, crescent with horns to left; all within circular incuse / SECVRITATI PERPETVAE, S C in exergue, Securitas enthroned right, resting head on right hand, with right arm resting on throne back, and holding scepter in left; lighted and garlanded altar to right. For coin: RIC IV 512d; Banti 115; BMCRE 250-2 (Septimius, Caracalla, and Geta); for c/m: Howgego 825. Near EF, attractive olive-brown patina, minor roughness on reverse.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich, acquired from Leu, May 1998.

Most of the known coins bearing this countermark are provincial issues of Tium, hence the attribution to that city.