Aureus - Caracalla VICTORIAE AVGG; Victory

Features

Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caracalla) (198-217)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 201
Value 1 Aureus = 25 Denarii
Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
Composition Gold
Weight 7.2 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
273609
References RIC IV.1# 347,
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham; 1936. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 4.1. Pertinax – Geta and Caracalla (AD 193–217). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
OCRE# ric.4.crl.347
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Bust of Caracalla, laureate, cuirassed, with aegis, right.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ANTONINVS AVG PONT TR P IIII

Translation:
Antoninus Augustus, Pontifex [Maximus], Tribunicia Potestate Quarta.
Antoninus [Pius] emperor (Augustus), [high] priest, holder of tribunician power for the fourth time.

Reverse

Victory, winged, draped, advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and palm sloped over left shoulder in left hand.

Script: Latin

Lettering: VICTORIAE AVGG

Translation:
Victoriae Augustorum.
To the victory of the emperors (Augusti).

Mint

Laodicea ad Mare, Syria, modern-day Latakia, Syria

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