Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1020. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.38 gm). Struck 215 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P, Caracalla, in military dress, standing left, sacrificing over altar in front of four columned temple; behind, togate figure standing left; before, Aesculapius standing right, holding wand, a small child standing beside him, holding wand. RIC IV 270a; BMCRE 148; Cohen 317. Good VF, light scratch in reverse field. Very rare. (See color enlargement on plate 16.) ($7500) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex UBS 49 (11-13 September 2000), lot 463.