Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1722. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MIXED ROMAN. Lot of seventy modern and contemporary forgeries. Serveran period. Includes the following: Septimius Severus (32 coins; 11 modern forgeries, 9 base imitations, 12 barbarous imitations) // Divo Septimius Severus (3 coins, all modern forgeries) // Julia Domna (5 coins; 2 modern forgeries, 3 base imitiations) // Caracalla (16 coins; 6 modern forgeries, 6 base imitations, 4 barbarous imitations) // Pautilla (4 coins; 3 modern forgeries, 1 base imitiation) // Geta (10 coins; 4 modern forgeries, 3 base imitations, 2 foureé, 1 barbarous imitation). Lot also includes base denarii of Faustina Jr., Lucius Verus, Lucilla, and Severus Alexander (one coin each); a modern forgery of Commodus; and a foureé of Vitellius (BN 79 (same dies); RSC 22). All coins Fair to VF condition. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Forty-six (46) coins in lot. ($200) 

From the Marc Melcher Collection.