Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1528. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GETA. 209-212 AD. Æ Sestertius (23.10 g, 7h). 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; Cohen 145. Good VF, apple green patina, a few tiny spots of encrustation on obverse, hairline flan crack. ($3000)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Lanz 32 (29 April 1985), lot 673; Frederick A. Walters Collection (A. Hess 211, 9 May 1932), lot 1195.