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411, Lot: 408. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 20.35 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 215. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Isis standing right, holding sistrum and presenting grain ears to Caracalla standing left, holding long scepter, foot on crocodile. RIC IV 544 var. (spear); Banti 71. Near Fine, brown surfaces, some green and red. Banti records 16 examples with Caracalla holding a spear but only records 3 examples with Caracalla holding a long scepter. Rare with scepter instead of spear.