376, Lot: 352. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Stratonicaea. Septimius Severus, with Geta. AD 193-211. Æ (34mm, 22.82 g, 6h). Hierocleus, prytanis. Struck AD 209–211. Confronted busts of Septimius right and [Geta] left, each laureate and cuirassed, with gorgoneion on breastplate; c/m: laureate and draped bust right within circular incuse / Zeus Panamaros on horseback right; [altar] to right. SNG von Aulock 2679 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München 422 (same dies); Karl 299 (same dies); BMC 70; for c/m: Howgego 84. Fine, green patina, roughness.

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