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Auction 13  6 April 2017
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Lot 194

Estimate: 20 000 USD
Price realized: 27 500 USD
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Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Aureus, 7.46g (5h). Rome, 210-11 AD. Obv: ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG Head laureate right, with fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: VICTORIAE BRIT Victory seated left on shields, balancing shield on knee and holding palm. BM 519, pl. 41.5 (same dies). Cohen 633 corr. (citing BM, 150 Fr.). Calicó 2831 (this coin). RIC 174 (R2). Apparently only the second specimen recorded after that in BM. Ex Triton VI,14-15 January 2003, lot 1011. The British Victory types of the Severan family are all extremely rare in gold. Technically a mule from an old obverse die, since the British Victory reverse type means that the emperors had accepted the title Britannicus which should have been recorded in the obverse legend.
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