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Electronic Auction 445  5 Jun 2019
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Lot 467

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 65 USD
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Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.08 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 213. Laureate and bearded head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC IV 209a; RSC 224. EF.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex CNG inventory 191592 (March 2004).

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, "Libertas", the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was "the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation."
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