Caracalla. Denarius

Caracalla; 198-217 AD, New-style Eastern Mint, 202 AD, Denarius, 3.56g. BMC-727 note, citing C-184 (no source indicated) and L.A. Lawrence Coll. Obv: ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG, Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed r. Rx: P MAX TR P IIII COS around, Caracalla, veiled and togate, standing l., sacrificing from patera over tripod altar and holding roll at side. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; acquired from Barry Murphy, Nov. 2002. This coin was earlier no. 406 on Murphy's Severan Silver website. A rare reverse type, lacking in the Reka Devnia hoard with obverse legend ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, and represented by only three specimens in the hoard with obverse legend ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS. The three examples of this denarius offered here for sale have the rarer obverse legend and are all from the same pair of dies.Toned. Near MS