314, Lot: 425. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Geta. AD 209-211. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.64 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 210-211. Laureate head right / VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm. RIC IV 91; RSC 220. Good VF, lightly toned, faint porosity. Well centered.

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, as well as his sons, Caracalla and Geta.