Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1005. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AR Denarius (3.24 gm). Struck 208 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right / PONTIF TR P XI COS III, PROF in exergue, Caracalla on horseback right, holding spear; before him, soldier (or Mars) walking right, head left, holding spear. RIC IV 107 note; BMCRE 573; RSC 512. Toned, good VF, hairline flan crack. Scarce. ($200)

From the Marc Melcher Collection.

Commemorates the departure of Septimius and Caracalla from Rome in 208 AD, for their campaign in Britain.