Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1543. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $21500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA, with SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS and JULIA DOMNA. 198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.38 gm). Struck 201 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PONT TR P IIII, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Radiate and draped bust of Septimius Severus and diademed and draped bust of Julia Domna, set on crescent right, conjoined. RIC IV 52 var. (obverse legend); Calicó 2849a = BMCRE 260 note (this coin); Cohen 1 var. (same). Lightly toned, superb EF. Unique variety. ($20,000)

Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 592; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Sotheby's, 2 February 1984), lot 586; J. Hirsch XXXIII (17 November 1913), lot 1360; H. Osborne O'Hagan Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 16 July 1908), lot 528* (where it realized £24).