386, Lot: 596. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 207. Laureate head right / Caracalla standing facing, head right, holding reversed spear and parazonium; at feet to left, river god reclining on urn right; to right, two bound captives seated left. RIC IV 96; RSC 441. VF, lightly toned, a bit of porosity.

Rare commemoration of Caracalla’s campaigns in northern Britain near Hadrian’s Wall.