<— Last coin ----------     What I Like About Ancient Coins     ---------- Next coin —>
Caracalla seated Salus Coin Type: Silver denarius of Caracalla, Caesar Dec 195 - 28 Jan 198 CE, Augustus 28 Jan 198 - 8 Apr 217 CE.
Mint and Date: Rome, 212 CE
Size and Weight: 19mm, 3.2g
Obverse: Laureate bust right, seen from behind.
ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT
Reverse: Salus seated left, with right hand holding a patera to feed snake arising from an altar, cornucopia in left arm behind.
P M TR P XV COS III P P
Provenance: Aegean Numismatics (Vcoins), August 2006
Ref: RCV (2005) 6826; RIC 196
BW Ref: 018 024 083
Click on the picture for a larger scale view of the coin
The content of this page was last updated on 14 August 2006