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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: CARACALLA, AD 211-217. AR Denarius.
Obverse: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG. GERM. His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing left holding Victory and spear and leaning on shield.
Reference: RIC 311b; Sear 1958. 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.