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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Geta| > SH08038
Geta, 209 - c. 26 December 211 A.D.
|Geta|, |Geta,| |209| |-| |c.| |26| |December| |211| |A.D.|, Perhaps the finest Geta portrait Forum has handled. No specimens in the Reka Devnia hoard!
SH08038. Silver denarius, RIC IV 64b (R); RSC III 123; Hunter III 28; BMCRE V p. 275, * note; SRCV II 7190, Choice aEF, lightly toned, superb portrait, Rome mint, weight 3.59g, maximum diameter 19.7mm, die axis 180o, 209 A.D.; obverse P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, bare head right; reverse PONTIF COS II (priest, consul for the 2nd time), Geta on horse prancing left, bare-headed and wearing military garb, his paludamentum flying behind, brandishing spear at foe under the horse's forelegs, who has fallen on his right knee and holds a shield on his left arm; rare; SOLD










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GETACAESPONTCOS
GETACAESPONTIF
IMPCAESPSEPTGETAPIVSAVG
LSEPTIMIVSGETACAES
LSEPTGETACAESPONT
PSEPTGETACAESPONT
PSEPTIMGETACAESAR
PSEPTGETAPIVSAVGBRIT
PSEPTIMIVSGETACAES
PSEPTIMIVSGETAPIVSAVGBRIT

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