Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1000. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.06 gm). Struck 205 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right / PONTIF TR P VIII COS II, Mars standing left, right foot on helmet, holding branch and reversed spear. RIC IV 80b; BMCRE 476 note; Cohen 419 var. (cuirassed). EF. (See color enlargement on plate 16.) ($7500) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 601.