Triton XXI, Lot: 793. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 6.88 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 214. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P XVII IMP III COS IIII P P, Pluto seated left, wearing polos on head, holding scepter and placing hand over the three-headed dog, Cerberus, to left. RIC IV 242; Calicó 2717; BMCRE 96 (same dies); Biaggi 1189. Good VF, underlying luster, smoothing marks at edge around periphery. Well centered on a broad flan. Rare.