Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 998. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.12 gm). Struck 202 AD. ANTONIN PIVS AVG PON TR P V, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Cf. RIC IV 62 (denarius); cf. BMCRE pg. 233, * (denarius); cf. Cohen 7 (denarius). EF. Unpublished in the standard references. (See color enlargement on plate 16.) ($10,000) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex J. Vinchon (23 January 2001), lot 43 (cover coin).