Beschreibung
Material: Bronze
Gewicht: 21,71 g
Caracalla; 198-217 AD, Rome, 211 AD, Sestertius, 21.71g. BM-208; C-490, citing Paris, 80 Fr. Obv: M [A]V[R]EL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG Bust laureate r., with fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: PONTIF TR P XIIII CO[S III] around, S C in exergue, Two emperors in military dress standing l., extending r. hands; between their heads, one sees the head only of a third figure, with a [standard] above it; on l., two further standing figures, one holding a standard; at the feet of this second pair of standing figures, a captive seated r. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex NAC, Friedrich Collection of Roman Imperial Sestertii, 2 April 1995, lot 1688. This rare sestertius reverse type is recorded for Caracalla in the standard catalogues only with date TR P XIII = 210 AD. The present specimen, however, is clearly dated to the following year, TR P XIIII = 211 AD, though with the final stroke of the XIIII crowded in before the C of the following COS, as though possibly added later to a die that originally showed TR P XIII. This same somewhat enigmatic reverse type was also struck on sestertii of both Septimius Severus and Geta in 210 AD: see BM-193, pl. 57.8 and BM-217, pl. 59.3.. aVF
