Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1012. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $195. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Attaleia. Caracalla and Geta. Circa 198 AD. Æ 17mm (2.81 gm). Confronted bare headed busts of Caracalla and Geta / Roman she-wolf with twins. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC Lydia -; Lindgren -; Mionnet -. Apparently unpublished. Good VF, brown patina. ($150)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 1109. 

The youthful busts, lack of titulature, and Imperial reverse theme suggest this coin was struck very shortly after the elevations of Caracalla and Geta to Augustus and Caesar respectively in January, 198 AD.