408, Lot: 497. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.44 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 211. Laureate and bearded head right / FORT RED TR P XIIII COS III, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia; wheel below throne. RIC IV 190a note; RSC 89. EF, slightly granular surfaces.

This is the variety without P P at the end of the legend on reverse. Though RIC IV 190a questions whether this variety exists, RSC 89 notes that it has been confirmed by Charles Davis, and also by an example now in the British Museum.