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70, Lot: 109. Estimate $100.
Sold for $83. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.57 gm). Struck 202-204 AD. Laureate and draped bust right / Bacchus (or Liber), holding cup and thyrsus, and Hercules, holding club and lion's skin, standing facing each other; at feet of Bacchus, leopard catching drips from cup. RIC IV 74a; RSC 50. Lightly toned VF.

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung 108 (3 April 2001), lot 1929 (realized DM 1100 not including buyer's fee).