351, Lot: 455. Estimate $75. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Tetrassarion (23mm, 7.58 g, 6h). Quintilianus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 215. ANTΩNINOC ΠIO-C AVΓOVCT-OC, laureate head right / VΠ KVNTIΛIANO-C MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩ-N, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and double cornucopia. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.18.38.3; Varbanov 982 var. (single cornucopia); AMNG I –; Pfeiffer –. VF, dark green-brown patina. The second cornucopia has the appearance of an infant, though that representation with Fortuna would be highly unusual. Very rare.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.