CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37.5mm, 23.68 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, magistrate. Struck AD 202-205. Near VF.

Electronic Auction 525 – Session 1
Lot: 648. Estimated: $ 300

Roman Provincial, Bronze

Sold For $ 375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37.5mm, 23.68 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, magistrate. Struck AD 202-205. Confronted busts of Plautilla right, draped and wearing stephane and Caracalla left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m: laureate head right in oval incuse / Zeus Panamarus right on horseback, holding scepter; to right, lighted altar . SNG von Aulock 2695; BMC 66. Even brown surfaces, earthen highlights. Near VF.

From the D.K. Collection.

Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as “the new goddess Hera.” As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): “By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one.”

Closing Date and Time: 19 October 2022 at 13:35:40 ET.

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