Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1012. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.36 gm). Struck 211 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / P M TR P XIIII COS III P P, Caracalla (as Virtus) standing left, holding parazonium and reversed spear, right foot on captive seated below. RIC IV -; BMCRE -; Cohen -. Good VF. Unpublished in the standard references and apparently unique. (See color enlargement on plate 14.) ($7500) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Dr. Busso Peus 366 (25 October 2000), lot 1412; Tkalec and Rauch (25-26 April 1989), lot 336. 

This reverse type is not published in any other denomination, issue, or mint for any of the Severans.