★ Exceptionally Rare & Wonderfully Detailed ★

ROMAN EMPIRE. Caracalla.
Gold aureus, AD 210-213. Rome.
Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder. Rev: LIB AVGG VI ET V, Caracalla and Geta seated left on platform; before, Libertas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopiae, citizen below.
About Mint State; a remarkable coin - highly lustrous and beautifully detailed with a portrait struck in high relief.

Reference: RIC IV-215c; BMCRE-p. 371 note; C.-130 var. (bust type); Calicó-2692 corr. (misdescribed).
Rarity: Exceptionally Rare; the fourth example to come to auction in past 20 years.
Die Axis: 12h.
Diameter: 19 mm.
Weight: 7.15 g.
Composition: Gold.

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