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Domitianus - FortunaAs 87
O/ IMP CAES DOMIT AUG GERM - COS XIII CENS PER P P Laureate bust right
R/ FORTUNAE AUGUSTI S C Fortuna standing left, holding Cornucopia and rudder
RIC 353b ??
Mint: Romeseptimus09/15/06 at 09:50septimus: Thank you!
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Caracalla * Lucius Septimius Bassianus * & Agathedaemon Serpent * 196-217 AD. Æ 28mm
THRACE, Serdica. Caracalla. 198-217 AD. Æ 28mm
Obv: AVT K M AVP CEV ANTWNEINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right; viewed from behind
Rev: OULPIAC CEPDIKHC, Agathedaemon serpent, coiled and erect.
BMC Thrace pg. 174, 23.
Moushmov 4860
Rate F+
Glossy darkish-brown patina
"The elder of the two sons of the emperor Septimius Severus, Caracalla is best-known for arranging the murder of his brother Geta after the two engaged in a power struggle in the months after their father's death. The murder offended contemporaries and colored the following five years of Caracalla's reign, a reign that ended on a Syrian road with the emperor's own murder."
~ DIR USC, Michael L. Meckler
Tiathena07/26/05 at 14:29septimus: Impressive!
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Caracalla RIC IV, 39(a) corr.Caracalla, AD 198 - 217
AR - Denar, 3.67g, 19mm
Rome AD 199 - 201
obv. ANTONINVS - AVGVSTVS
bust draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate head r., youthful portrait
rev. RECTOR - ORBIS
Caracalla as Alexander the Great, naked, standing frontal, laureate head l.,
Chlamys over l. shoulder, wears sword in scabbard suspended from
belt over shoulder, holding globe r. and reversed spear l.
RIC IV, 39(a) corr.; C.542; BMC 165 corr.
EF, mint luster
The rev. is usually called Caracalla as Sol. But there are some oddities: The figure is not radiate but laureate, and a sword in a scubbard is hanging over the r. shoulder. That doesn't match the attributes of Sol. Curtis Clay: It is Caracalla as Alexander the Great! Probably it resembles the statue of Lysipp 'Alexander with spear'.
CHLAMYS, cloak, if the context suggest civilian rather than military use
PALUDAMENTUM, used to describe the cloak worn with a cuirass by emperors on late Roman coins. So the garment on the obv. is a paludament, that on the rev. a chlamys!Jochen07/26/05 at 14:27septimus: Very nice portrait
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Caracalla RIC IV, 284Caracalla AD 198 - 217
AR - Denar, 3.13g, 19mm
Rome AD 217
obv. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM
laureate head r.
rev. PM TRP XX COS IIII PP
Diana (or Luna?) with crescent on head and scarf flying
behind her, standing in bull-biga, driving l.
RIC IV, 284; C.396
Scarce; good EF
added to www.wildwinds.comJochen07/26/05 at 14:26septimus: Wunderbar
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Howgego 670Severus Alexander --AE34, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Laureate and cuirassed bust right; c/m: D with central pellet / Nike standing facing with wings spread, holding tabula ansata inscribed ELEV/QEPAC in two lines. SNG Levante -; SNG Levante Suppl. 197 (this coin); SNG France 992-994 (same dies); SNG von Aulock -; c/m: Howgego 670. Ex Eduardo Levante Collection. (featherz collection)featherz07/26/05 at 14:12septimus: Beautiful and interesting coin!!!
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Probus - Woman and emperorAntoninianus 276
O/ IMP C M AUR PROBUS P F AUG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
R/ RESTITUT ORBIS Woman standing right presents wreath to Probus holding globe and scepter
Ex: gamma / XXI
C 509 - RIC 925
Mint: Antioch (3rd off., 2nd emission)septimus09/14/04 at 11:31septimus: Thanks for the correction
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ROMAN EMPIRE, Augustus & Agrippa, AE As, COL NEMAugustus & Agrippa, AE As, 28mm (12.83 gm). Addorsed heads of Agrippa on left, wearing combined rostral crown and laurel wreath, and Augustus on right, wearing oak wreath, IMP above and DIVI F below / Crocodile chained to palm tip, wreath in upper left and COL - NEM above. Nemausus, c. 10 BC - AD 10. RIC I 158 (pg. 51).
socalcoins09/10/04 at 13:34septimus: Great ! This type of coins is often broken in 2 (1...
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Geta, 207 ADP SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES
Bust draped, right
PONTIF COS
Minerva standing left, holding spear, leaning on shield
Rome, RIC 34a, S 2015, C 104whitetd4909/10/04 at 11:44septimus: I like it too
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Caracalla, AR Antoninianus, 215 ADANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM
Radiate, cuirassed, draped, right
PM TRP XVIII COS III PP
Sol facing, head left, right arm raised, left holding globe
RIC 264c, C 287
Ex. Lindgren
Rome
One of the first issues of this denominationwhitetd4909/09/04 at 05:47septimus: Very beautiful coin.
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