Watch List notes:

Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.30 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 205. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PONTIF TR P VIII COS II, Mars, helmeted, naked except for cloak on left shoulder, standing left, right foot on helmet, holding branch with right hand and reversed, vertical spear with left. RIC IV 80a; Calicó 2777 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 476-7; Biaggi 1205 (same obv. die); Jameson 183; Mazzini 419. Lustrous. Choice EF. Well struck on a broad flan.


From the Provence Collection. Ex Rauch 95 (30 September 2014), lot 512.