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A silver denarius of Caracalla with a reverse showing Fortuna with cornucopia and wheel. 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, 211 CE
Size and Weight: 18mm x 19mm, 3.73g
Obverse: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT
Laureate, bearded head right.
Reverse: FORT RED P M TR P XIIII COS III P P
Fortuna, draped, standing facing, head left, holding a cornucopia with the tip away from her body in her right hand, and resting her left arm on a rudder set on the ground, with drapery over her left arm; at her feet, half behind and half visible to the left, a wheel.
Provenance: numismatiklanz (eBay), November 2009
Ref: RCV (2002) 6802; RIC IV 189; BMCRE V p.419, 1.
BW Ref: 056 044 149
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