Triton XVIII, Lot: 1163. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 18.73 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 214. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P XVII IMP III COS IIII P P, S C low across field, LIB AVG VIIII in exergue, Caracalla, togate, seated left on curule chair on low platform, extending right hand; to right, officer standing left; to left on platform, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding up abacus in right hand and cornucopia in left; at foot of platform, citizen, togate, climbing steps, holding out in both hands fold of toga. RIC IV 527; Banti 23; BMCRE 265. Good VF, brown surfaces, some red and green, minor roughness. Rare.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Jascha Heifetz Collection (Part 2, Superior, 9 December 1989), lot 3286.