445, Lot: 467. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.08 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 213. Laureate and bearded head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC IV 209a; RSC 224. EF.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex CNG inventory 191592 (March 2004).

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”