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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Caracalla| > RS76088
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D.
|Caracalla|, |Caracalla,| |28| |January| |198| |-| |8| |April| |217| |A.D.|, After Apollo insulted him, Eros (cupid) shot Apollo with an arrow that caused him to fall in hopeless love with Daphne, a mortal woman. Eros shot Daphne with an arrow which made her incapable of loving Apollo. Nevertheless Apollo pursued her, and out of desperation Daphne escaped by having herself turned into a laurel. Ever after, winners of the games to honor Apollo wore wreaths of laurel in honor of Apollo's Daphne.
RS76088. Silver denarius, RIC IV 238A (S); RSC III 242; BMCRE V p. 448, 91; Hunter III p. 84, 23; SRCV II 6831, Choice, excellent portrait, attractive style, light contact marks, small areas of light corrosion, Rome mint, weight 3.114g, maximum diameter 18.9mm, die axis 0o, 214 A.D.; obverse ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right; reverse P M TR P XVII COS IIII P P, Apollo seated left, laurel branch in right hand, resting left elbow on lyre set on tripod; scarce; SOLD




  







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