Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1162. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. Æ Sestertius (23.02 gm, 1h). Struck 213 AD. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, draped, and cuirassed young bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P XVI IMP II, COS IIII P P/S C in exergue, aerial view of chariot race in the Circus Maximus: spina with obelisk of Augustus flanked by metae and statues; arena surrounded by colonnaded arcade; triumphal arch surmounted by quadriga and carceres at either end. RIC IV 500a; Banti 46; BMCRE 251; Cohen 236. Choice VF, mottled olive and dark green under light olive patina, minor roughness on reverse. A rare and popular architectural type. ($2000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex New York Sale I (3 December 1998), lot 319.