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342, Lot: 618. Estimate $300.
Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (16mm, 2.66 g, 6h). Contemporary Imitation. Struck circa AD 207 or later. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / PONTIF TR P X COS II, Mars, nude but for cloak flying from his waist, advancing right, holding spear and trophy. For prototype, cf. RIC IV 88; cf. RSC 431. Near EF, lightly toned, small spot of verdigris on the obverse. Nice metal.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 101 (6 March 2000), lot 38.