Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1047. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GETA. 209-212 AD Æ Sestertius (27.04 gm, 12h). Struck 210 AD. IMP CAES P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / PONTIF TR P II COS II, S C in exergue, Geta standing left and Caracalla standing right, vis-à-vis, each holding a patera in the right hand over a lighted tripod with sacrificial lying at base; Caracalla holding a baton in his left hand; tibicina standing facing between, playing tibiae. RIC IV 156a; Banti 40; BMCRE 214 (Septimius, Caracalla, and Geta; this coin); Cohen 145. Near EF, yellow-brown patina with traces of olive, minor flan crack. ($3000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Waddell List 60 (Summer 1993), lot 100; Numismatic Fine Arts XXXII (10 June 1993), lot 327; Numismatic Fine Arts XIV (29 November 1984), lot 497; British Museum Collection, 214; Rollin & Feuardent (1872), lot 2403.