Nomos AG, 84
Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 201-206. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right / VICT • PART • MAX, Victory advancing left, holding palm in left hand and wreath in right hand. RIC V 144a; Calicó 2843; BMCRE 295; Cohen 660. Choice EF, lightly toned.
Ex Aretusa 2 (13 May 1994), lot 402.
In AD 197 the Parthian campaign of Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla culminated with the capitulation and capture of the Parthian capital, Ctesiphon. So important was this victory over Rome’s mortal enemy that Severus was granted the cognomen Parthicus Maximus the following year, and, over the next several years, issues, such as this coin were struck to commemorate the event.
