IOVI SOSPITATORI

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 675. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (3.43 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 206. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / IOVI in exergue, SOSPI-TA-TORI around, Jupiter standing facing in shrine, holding patera in right hand, scepter in left. RIC IV 156; RSC 108; BMCRE 507. Good VF. Rare.

Ex Marc Melcher Collection (Triton VI, 14 January 2003), lot 1003.