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Author Topic: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse  (Read 702 times)

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Offline Gert

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Hi,
I cannot attribute this coin. Maybe someone recognizes it. All thoughts on region/style are also appreciated.

Confronted portraits of Septimius Severus and Caracalla
Galley sailing right, figure at the front, lighthouse behind with standing figure.
29mm; 16.04g

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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2009, 09:55:57 am »
Check coin n. O42223 here:

http://www2.rgzm.de/navis3/home/frames.htm

Struck at Laodicea mint (Syria)

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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2009, 11:17:05 am »
Luigi is correct:

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Laodiceia ad Mare. Septimius Severus and Caracalla. 198-211 AD.  Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right of Septimius vis à vis laureate and draped bust left of Caracalla / LIBERALITAS, large galley rowing right past the lighthouse of Laodiceia. Meyer, "Die Bronzeprägung von Laodikeia in Syrien 194-217," in JNG 37/38 (1987/1988), pg. 86, 95-98; Price & Trell pg. 42, 64 (wrongly attributed to Berytos).

Here's an ugly one I had not to long ago.

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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2009, 12:58:32 pm »
Thanks very much Luigi and Barry. I assume the attribution to Laodicea is based on a die link to a reverse with a Laodicea ethnic?
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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2009, 01:24:59 pm »
I don't know for sure, but probably the attribution to Laodicea has something to do with the cmk COL (Howgego 586) which appears on Barry specimen and on the one i suggested to check above.
Howgego records 87 coins of Laodicea with this cmk.
"Laodicea achieved the status of Colonia in AD 197/98" ... "The countermark was probably intended to allow older coins to circulate freely alongside the new issues of the colonia" (Howgego)

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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2009, 01:59:29 pm »
No die links between this and other issues, but the portrait style, lettering style and flan preparation (bevelled) are the same as on issues with the city name on them.

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Re: Provincial Severus&Caracalla double portrait / Galley and lighthouse
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2009, 02:15:36 pm »
Thanks again for the clarification. One last thing: it seems to me that the legend LIBERALITAS is something out of the ordinary for this depiction of a galley and a lighthouse. Any thoughts on that? Maybe because he funded building projects in the city because of its support in the war against Niger - including a lighthouse?
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Gert

 

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