Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1516. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIA DOMNA, with SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS and CARACALLA. Augusta, 193-217 AD. AR Denarius (2.74 g, 12h). Struck 201 AD. IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust of Domna right / AETERNIT IMPERI, confronted busts of Septimius Severus, laureate and cuirassed right, and Caracalla, laureate, draped and cuirassed left. RIC IV 539b var. (Septimius also draped); BMCRE 1 and 2 var. (bust types on reverse); RSC 2a and 2b var. (same). EF, short flan crack. Unpublished variety of a rare type. ($1500)

The published specimens all show Septimius and Caracalla as sharing the same bust type.