Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1161. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA.198-217 AD. AV Aureus (7.38 gm, 7h). Struck 211 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate bust right, aegis at point of bust / LIB AVGG VI ET V, Geta and Caracalla, laureate and togate, seated left on curule chairs set on low daïs, each extending right hand to small figure climbing stairs holding out fold of toga to receive tessera; Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand at fore-edge of daïs. RIC IV 215b; BMCRE pg. 371, * note; Calicó 2690; Cohen 130 var. (without PIVS). Near EF, well-centered and struck. Bold portrait. Rare. ($5000)