179, Lot: 224. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ As (26mm, 10.81 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 215. Diademed and draped bust right / Four Vestals sacrificing in front of the Temple of Vesta. RIC IV 607 (Caracalla). VF, rough brown surfaces.

During the last five years of her life, following the fratricidal murder of her younger son Geta in 212, Julia Domna virtually ran the government while Caracalla embarked on various military adventures. The emperor was much troubled by illness through