Caracalla. Sestertius

Caracalla; 198-217 AD, Rome, 210-211 AD, Sestertius, 23.30g. Obv: M AVREL ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG BRIT Bust laureate r., with fold of aegis on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: VICTORIAE BRITTANNI[CAE] around, S C in exergue, Two Victories advancing r. and l. respectively, together placing round shield on palm tree growing between them, at the foot of which two captives are seated. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Artemide XXXE, 2010, lot 294. Apparently unique and unpublished with obverse legend ending BRIT. Almost all of the sestertii of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, and Geta that showed British Victory reverse types in 210-211 AD still omitted the title BRIT from their obverse legends, apparently because their obverse dies had been engraved before the emperors accepted that title in mid-2I0 AD, but were then only brought into use some time later, when the mint decided to save time by employing those old obverse dies without BRIT, instead of engraving new dies adding that now correct title. For sestertii of Caracalla showing British Victory reverse types in 210-211 AD, but not yet adding BRIT to their obverse legend, see for example the preceding lots XX-XX and the following lots XX-XX in this current Berk Buy or Bid Sale.. aEF