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[AlfaOmega]

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It should be Caracalla and (I think) of Nicaea of ​​Bithynia. Al D a youthful portrait (and a little thin, it does not seem so much he ...) on the right; reads: ΑΥΤ Κ ΜΑΥΡΗΛ ... ΑΥΓ. To the rov., A figured figure (I think masculine, but with some doubt) turned left, with patera and scepter. The inscription seems to me: TETANKAICA .... (N) IKAIEIC. This last term leads me to Nicea; all Caracalla coins actually report NIKAIEΩΝ or ΝΙΚΑΙΩΝ, but in different previous coins, when the case is not plural genitive but dative, I found NIKAIEIC. find it anywhere.
It could also be an Antioch.
I kindly ask for help in identifying it.
I thank and greet Roberto

[curtislclay]

Caracalla and Nicaea are correct, RG 491, citing a single specimen in a private collection in Budapest, pl. LXXIX.31, same dies as yours.

The rev. type is very interesting, ΓETAN KAICAPA NIKAIEIS, The Nicaeans (honor) Geta Caesar.

Other, apparently contemporaneous, Severan coins of Nicaea celebrate the city's holding of Severan Games of Brotherly Love, apparently the reason they were honoring Geta, as your coin states.

[AlfaOmega]

Grazie

[Gianfranco P]

I thanks very much my friend Alfaomega,who posted my coin, and Curtisclay, who has so kindly and speedy answered. If I have good understood, that is an "honour-emission", does'nt it?

[curtislclay]

There are indeed other provincial coins that combine a city's name in the nominative case with the name of an emperor or a god in the accusative case, implying that the city had honored the named emperor or god, perhaps by erecting a statue of him or her. I'm not sure I have ever heard of such coins being classified as "honour-emissions", however.

Your Nicaean "honor coin" is interesting because it can be shown to be contemporary with the coins commemorating Nicaea's holding of "Severan Games of Brotherly Love". The brothers in question were of course Caracalla and Geta, recently elevated (in 198 AD) to the positions of Augustus and Caesar respectively.

[AlfaOmega]

grazie