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284, Lot: 157. Estimate $300.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (39mm, 20.42 g, 1h). Cl. Dionysius, magistrate. AKPA KAI M AVP AИ • KAI ΘЄ C-ЄB [NЄ] ΠΛAVTIΛΛAИ, confronted busts of Plautilla right, draped and wearing stephane, and Caracalla left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m: helmeted bust right within oval incuse and ΘЄOV within rectangular incuse / Hekate standing left, holding patera and torch; to left, hound standing left, head reverted. SNG von Aulock 2695/2694 (same obv. die as 2695, rev. type as 2694); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Keckman -; SNG Leypold 850 (same obv. die); for c/m’s: Howgego 188 and 536. Good Fine, brown patina, even roughness. An interesting obverse legend lauding the divinity of Plautilla.


From the R. D. Frederick Collection.