Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1018. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.07 gm). Struck 214 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P XVII IMP III COS IIII P P, Pluto, wearing polos, seated left, extending left hand and holding sceptre; at his feet, Cerebus standing front. RIC IV 242; BMCRE 96; Cohen 253. EF. ($5000) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 606; Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 309; Hess-Leu 24 (16 April 1964), lot 324.