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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 2958212, member: 36818&quot;]Thank you for the nice comments. </p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, your ant may be more common but it must be best of the type! It&#039;s really incredible. I don&#039;t have the ant of this type, but I do have a couple of less-common denarii, one of the same type and another related type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]723609[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Caracalla.</b> AR denarius, Rome mint, struck 215 CE; 21mm, 3.16g. BMCRE 125, Hill 1491 (R3), RIC 261a (S), RSC 299. Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM; laureate head right. Rx: P M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P; Pluto/Serapis, wearing polos (RSC says modius), seated left, on stool, holding scepter, and extending right hand toward Cerberus at his feet. Rare; three specimens in the Reka Devnia hoard. This type for Caracalla was present on antoninianii in both the Arnold (lot 119) and Kelly collections (lot 1251, first of two coins). However, both lacked examples of the Pluto type on denarii. Reverse die link to Naumann 58, 1 October 2017, lot 482 (realized hammer €260). VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>————————————</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]723610[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Caracalla. </b>AR denarius, Rome mint, struck 217 CE; 18mm, 2.89g, 7h. BMCRE 176, Hill 1568 (R4), RIC 291b (C), RSC 385. Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM; head laureate right. Rx: P M TR P XX — COS IIII P P; Serapis, wearing polos on head, seated left, holding uncertain object (corn ears?) and scepter. Very rare; only one in Reka Devnia. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Laurent Bricault Collection of Isis and Serapis in Ancient Coinage.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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