202, Lot: 373. Estimate $150. Sold for $530. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.23 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 217. Laureate head right / VIC PART P M TR P XX COS IIII P P, Caracalla, holding globe and scepter, and Victory, holding palm and crowning emperor with wreath, standing left; at Caracalla’s feet to left, small captive seated left, head right. RIC IV 299e; RSC 655. Good VF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the White Mountain Collection.

A late issue of Caracalla, struck shortly before his murder while traveling from Edessa to Carrhae during his Parthian campaign.