The coin pictured below (photos courtesy of Stack's-Bowers) was offered last Sunday with a variety of choice ancient coins at a Stack's-Bowers auction. The coin had a rather "flowery" description with an estimate of $500 - 700. I purchased this coin about 15 years ago from a Harlan Berk bid/buy sale for $200. After acquiring a better looking example I got the coin slabbed & sent it to Heritage 7 years ago with a consignment. The coin sold at Heritage for $431.25 so I was happy with the result . Much to my surprise the coin failed to sell at the Stack's-Bowers auction . The consignor put a reserve of $460 on the coin, only $40 from the low estimate, was this a mistake ? Sometimes when a bidder sees an opening bid so close to the low estimate they are reluctant to start the bidding. Heritage as a general rule will start bidding at 1/2 of the low estimate. The year 2012 was a stellar year for selling Caracalla tetradrachms at Heritage . Many records were set that year including the rather crude coin pictured below (photos courtesy of Heritage). Gaza, Judaea. Caracalla, AD 215-217. Billon Tetradrachm: 12.93 gm, 27 mm, 7h. At the time this coin was apparently unpublished & not listed by Prieur. It sold for $33,460.00 !!!
What I see here is not covered in your caption. Did Heritage identify the reverse head as Geta? I might not pay $33k for the coin but I do believe it is 33 times as interesting as most $1k coins I see on the market. What is the term for the 'half swastika' in the upper left field.
Apparently Heritage wasn't sure who the figure on the reverse was, "Head of young Caracalla (?) r. upon back of eagle with spread wings standing l." See the link below. https://coins.ha.com/itm/judaea/anc.../a/3003-20636.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515
