Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 569. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea. Septimius Severus and Caracalla. 193-211 AD. AR Drachm (3.22 gm). Dated year 13 (205/206 AD). AY K L CEP CEOYHPOC AV K M AV AN[TWNI] AVG, laureate busts of Septimius and Caracalla facing one another, both with slight drapery on their far shoulders / MHTPO KAICAPI, ET IG (date) in exergue, view of Mount Argaeus surmounted by star. Sydenham -; BMC Galatia -. Lightly toned, near EF. Extremely rare. ($1000) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Leu 77 (11-12 May 2000), lot 585; Leu 57 (25 May 1993), lot 285. 

One of only two recorded specimens; the other appeared in Sternberg XIX (18-19 November 1987), lot 706.