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306, Lot: 262. Estimate $150.
Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (35mm, 22.77 g, 6h). Confronted busts of [Geta] right and Caracalla left, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m: ΘЄOY within rectangular incuse (faint and only partly visible near 6 o’clock) / Zeus Panamaros on horseback right; altar to right. Cf. SNG von Aulock 2689-91; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München –; SNG Tübingen –; SNG Keckman –; Karl –; for c/m: Howgego 536. VF, brown surfaces, a few scratches on reverse.


The portrait of Geta has been removed as part of the damnatio memoriae following his murder in AD 212.

A reverse die match is necessary to reconstruct the legend and identify the magistrate.