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Geta’s Damnatio

342, Lot: 418. Estimate $300.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (36mm, 24.08 g, 6h). Jason, son of Cleobulus, gramatteus. Confronted busts of Caracalla right and [Geta] left, both laureate, draped, and cuirassed; c/m: laureate and draped bust right within circular incuse / Hekate standing left, holding patera and torch; to left, hound standing left, head right. SNG von Aulock 2686 var. (arrangement of rev. legend; same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 512 (same obv. die); for c/m: Howgego 84. VF, grayish-green patina.


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