253, Lot: 366. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.80 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. Laureate head right / VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory standing facing, head left, holding palm and wreath. RIC IV 231; RSC 632. VF.

Septimius Severus waged his last military campaign against the Caledionians 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, and his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta. The campaign was in full swing in AD 208 and continued until AD 211, being led by Septimius and Caracalla, with the latter taking supreme command 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 angry that he appeared ready to stab his father in the back before the whole of the army.