VICTORIAE BRIT

Triton XXI, Lot: 792. Estimate $30000. Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 210-211. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head right, slight drapery over far shoulder / VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory seated left on shield, right hand holding shield propped on knee, left arm cradling palm frond. RIC IV 174 corr. (bust type); Calicó 2831 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 519 (same dies); Biaggi –. Choice EF, lustrous. Apparently only the second specimen recorded.

Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 1011; Classical Numismatic Review XXVII (Summer 2002), no. 77; Numismatica Ars Classica 23 (19 March 2002), lot 1068.