RIC IV Caracalla 418
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Caracalla 418. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Caracalla; Septimius Severus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Caracalla; Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Caracalla, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right
- Reverse
- Caracalla (?), veiled, togate, standing right, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over altar; facing him, are Hercules, naked, holding club and lion-skin, and Bacchus, naked, with cup and thyrsus, and victimarius with pig, standing left; to left, Tellus reclining left; in backgroud, fluteplayer
- Obverse legend
- ANTONINVS PIVS AVG PONT TR P VII
- Reverse legend
- COS LVD SAEC FEC S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.crl.418
Research required
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