Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1523. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. Æ Sestertius (29.33 g, 12h). Struck 212-213 AD. M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SECVRITATI PERPETVAE, S C in exergue, SÉcuritas seated right on draped throne, leaning head on right hand with elbow resting on chair back, and holding sceptre in left hand; garlanded altar before. RIC IV 512a; Banti 116; BMCRE 248A; Cohen 576. Good VF, dark green-brown surfaces, scratch in field behind head, minor die shift on reverse. ($1500)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.