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CARACALLA, 198-217 A.D.
Silver  Denarius (20mm, 3.45gm.) Rome, 210-211 A.D.
References: RIC IV 231A; RSC 629.
 Laureate head right.
VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory advancing right, holding trophy with both hands.

Septimius Severus waged his last military campaign against the Caledionians on  the northern border of Britain, where he himself died at his campaign  headquarters at York in February AD 211. Among those who accompanied him on the  campaign were his wife Julia Domna, as well as his sons, Caracalla and Geta.  Septimius and Caracalla commanded this campaign; Caracalla became sole commander  after his father had fallen ill. The two often did not agree on matters of  strategy, and we are told that at one point that Caracalla became so angry that  he appeared ready to stab his father in the back before the entire army. Upon  Severus' death at York in February AD 211, Caracalla made peace with the  Caledonians on less-than-favorable terms which required the Romans retreat to  the agreed border of Hadrian’s Wall.