Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 985. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA DOMNA, wife of Septimius Severus. AV Aureus (7.08 gm). Laodicea mint. Struck 199-207 AD. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / L-AETI-TIA, Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and rudder. Cf. RIC IV 641 (Septimius; denarius); cf. BMCRE 604 (Septimius; denarius); cf. Cohen 101 (denarius). EF. Unpublished as an aureus. (See color enlargement on plate 16.) ($7500) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex J. Vinchon (23 January 2001), lot 41.