405, Lot: 456. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ As (25mm, 10.78 g, 12h). Secular Games issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 204. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS LVDOS SAECVL [F]EC S C, Liber (Bacchus), wearing leopard's skin, standing right, panther at feet, holding cantharus and thyrsus, vis-à-vis Hercules standing left, holding club and lion's skin. RIC IV 421 corr. (rev. legend). Near VF, dark green patina with lighter highlights/deposits, some cleaning marks. Rare.

Ex Frank L. Kovacs Collection (Helios 1, 17 April 2008), lot 322; Münzhandlung Basel 1 (28 June 1934), lot 1690.