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386, Lot: 598. Estimate $500.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ As (27mm, 9.37 g, 12h). British Victory type. Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. Laureate head right / Victory standing right, with foot on uncertain object, inscribing shield set upon palm tree to right. RIC IV 522a corr. (obv. legend). Good VF, green surfaces with patches of red, fill and some smoothing.


Septimius Severus waged his last military campaign against the Caledonians on the northern border of Britain, where he himself died at his campaign headquarters at York in February AD 211. Among those who accompanied him on the campaign were his wife Julia Domna, as well as his sons Caracalla and Geta. Septimius and Caracalla commanded this campaign, with Caracalla becoming sole commander after his father had fallen ill. The two often did not agree on matters of strategy, and we are told that at one point Caracalla became so enraged that he appeared ready to stab his father in the back before the entire army. Upon Severus' death, Caracalla made peace with the Caledonians on less-than-favorable terms, which required the Romans retreat to the agreed border of Hadrian’s Wall.