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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: CARACALLA, AD 211-217. AR Denarius.
Obverse: ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, His young, small, laureated head right.
Reverse: SAL. GEN. HVM. Salus standing left holding serpent entwined sceptre and raising a male figure.
Reference: RIC 42a; Sear 1955. Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Caracalla" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Caracalla see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.