CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (34mm, 21.85 g, 7h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. Near EF.

CNG Feature Auction 132
Lot: 611. Estimated: $ 750

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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (34mm, 21.85 g, 7h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, from behind vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hekate standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and torch; at feet left, lighted altar. RPC V.2 Online 85321 (this coin cited). For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, light porosity, flan adjustment marks. Near EF. Very rare. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla’s damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.

From the Gasvoda Collection.

Upon Septimius’ passing in AD 211, his sons Caracalla and Geta assumed joint rule of the empire. Their joint rule was a failure: the Imperial Palace was separated into two sections and they threatened to divide the empire between them. During the Festival of Saturnalia, December AD 211, Caracalla tried unsuccessfully to have his brother assassinated. But a week later, at an arranged meeting in their mother’s quarters, Geta was murdered by Caracalla’s centurions.

Caracalla immediately ordered a damnatio memoriae of his brother’s image: statues were removed, paintings were destroyed, or, as with the Severan Tondo, the portrait of Geta was erased, and coins were recalled to have his image carved out. This damnatio was especially apparent on the provincial coinage of Pergamum in Mysia and Stratonicaea in Caria. It is estimated that approximately 95% of the dual bust types at Stratonicea have had the portrait of Geta erased, many of them having a countermark of Roma or Caracalla stamped over his bust, or as on this coin, ΘEOY, or God, as Caracalla believed himself to be a god among men.

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