Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1045. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD Æ Sestertius (23.59 gm, 12h). Struck 212-213 AD. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / SECVRITATI PERPETVAE, S C in exergue, Securitas seated right on draped throne, leaning head on right hand with elbow resting on chair back, and holding sceptre in left hand; garlanded altar before. RIC IV 512d; Banti 115; BMCRE 250; Cohen 576. Good VF, brown and red patina with traces of green and black, hairline flan crack. Extremely rare. ($1000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 1823; Hall Park McCullough Collection (Stack's, 20-22 November 1967), lot 1399; Prince Waldeck Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 8, 22-23 March 1937), lot 894.