Details
LOT 3637
Caracalla AR Denarius. AD 215. Rome mint.
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head to right / P M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P, Aesculapius standing facing, head to left, leaning right on serpent-entwined staff; at feet to right, globe. RIC IV 251; BMCRE 103; RSC 302. Extremely Fine.(3.49gr, 18mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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