Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 922. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS and JULIA DOMNA. 193-211 AD. AV Aureus (7.28 gm). Struck 200-201 AD. SEVERVS AVG PART MAX, laureate bust right, lion's skin over both shoulders / IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust of Domna right. RIC IV 161b; BMCRE 192; Cohen 1. Superb EF. Choice portraits of Severus and Domna. (See color enlargement on plate 13.) ($10,000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Auction Triton III (1 December 1999), lot 1117; Münzen und Medaillen Auktion 64 (30 January 1984), lot 269.