Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1037. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PLAUTILLA, wife of Caracalla. AR Quinarius (1.41 gm). Struck 203-205 AD. PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / VENVS FELIX, Venus standing left, holding apple and raising drapery. RIC IV 368; BMCRE 426A; RSC 23. Toned, good VF, hairline flan crack. Very rare. ($1500) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 100, 22 November 2000), lot 96; Frank Sternberg XVIII (20-21 November 1986), lot 539.