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Electronic Auction 460  29 Jan 2020
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Lot 686

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 7000 USD
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Caracalla. AD 198-217. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 212-213. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PROVIDENTIAE DEORVM, Providentia standing left, holding scepter in left hand and wand in right over globe on ground to left. RIC IV 227 var. (laureate head right); Calicó 2801a; BMCRE 100 note var. (same); Biaggi 1213 var. (same). Drapery and cuirass have been added to the coin, which was originally a laureate head right type. Good VF. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 111 (24 September 2018), lot 382 (described there as "A bold portrait work of a skilled master engraver."); Roma V (23 March 2013), lot 843.
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