Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1049. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DIADUMENIAN. As Caesar, 217-218 AD Æ Sestertius (26.37 gm, 12h). Struck 217-218 AD. M OPEL ANTONINVS DIADVMENIANVS CAES, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from front / PRINC IVVENTVTIS, S C in exergue, Diadumenian standing facing, head right, holding legionary aquila in right hand and cradling baton in left arm; legionary aquila and military standard in right field. RIC IV 211 (same obverse die); Clay Issue 2; Banti 3; BMCRE 149 (Macrinus; same obverse die); Cohen 7. Choice VF, red-brown patina with areas of green and black. Very rare. ($4000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Triton II (1-2 December 1998), lot 967; Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 658; Spink Taisei 52 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 26-27 November 1994), lot 2263 (expertly conserved since).