CNG 85, Lot: 949. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.19 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 212-213. Laureate head right / Securitas seated right, holding scepter and placing hand on head. RIC IV 229a; Calicó 2813. Near VF, banker’s mark (floral design) on reverse.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman.

See the aureus of Septimius, lot 939, for the same banker’s mark.