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PLAUTILLA (Justa Fulvia) Daughter of the enormously rich Plautianus, and the unhappy wife of the cruel Caracalla, to whom she was married AD 202, her arrogant and conceited father having, it is said, given with her a dowry which would have sufficed to portion off fifty queens. This young Empress had a fine figure, regular features, and might have been esteemed a beauty, but for the imperious manner in which she behaved to everybody, not excepting even her husband, who soon returned her haughtiness with deadly hatred. At the instigation of Caracalla, she was banished by Sept. Severus to the isle of Lipari, where, after languishing miserably amidst constant alarms and total privations till the commencement of her husband's reign, she was assassinated by his order AD 212 (after seven years suffering), along with a daughter whom she had by this union, and whom the same execrable tyrant caused to be slain as the companion of her exile. The coins of Plautilla are extremely rare in gold, but common in silver, with exception of some reverses. First brass are the rarest, second and third brass not so scarce. Some silver pieces of this Empress represent her with Caracalla. Her name and title on Latin coins is thus inscribed - PLAVTILLA AVG or PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE.
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