367, Lot: 539. Estimate $400. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.70 g, 12h). British Victory type. Rome mint. Struck AD 211. Laureate head right, with slight drapery / VICT BRIT TR P XIIII COS III / S C, Victory standing right, erecting trophy; to right, woman standing facing; bound captive seated to her left. RIC IV 483d var. (rev. legend); Banti 133. VF, heavy green patina, fields lightly smoothed.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 129, 21 December 2005), lot 379.

Septimius Severus waged his last military campaign against the Caledonians 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. Septimius and Caracalla commanded this campaign, with Caracalla becoming sole commander after his father had fallen ill. The two often did not agree on matters of strategy and we are told that at one point that Caracalla became so enraged that he appeared ready to stab his father in the back before the entire army. Upon Severus' death at York in February AD 211, Caracalla made peace with the Caledonians on less-than-favorable terms, which required the Romans retreat to the agreed border of Hadrian’s Wall