brm_788494 - CARACALLA As

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Type : As

Date: 216

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Diameter : 25 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 11,66 g.

Rarity : R1

Officine: 4e

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie sur un flan épais, idéalement centré. Joli buste de Caracalla. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

C.344 - RIC.559 b - BMC/RE.299

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM.

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Caracalla à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.

Obverse translation : “Antoninus Pius Augustus Germanicus”, (Antonin pieux auguste germanique).

Reverse

Reverse legend : P M TR P XVIIII COS IIII P P//SC.

Reverse description : Jupiter assis à gauche tenant un sceptre long et une victoriola ; à ses pieds, un aigle.

Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate novum decimum Consul quartum Pater Patriæ”, (Gand pontife revêtu de la dix-neuvième puissance tribunitienne, du quatrième consulat, père de la patrie).

Historical background

CARACALLA

(05/27/196-04/8/217)

Augustus with Geta

Septimius Severus died in York on February 4, 211. Caracalla and Geta hastened to halt operations in Britain and achieve an uneasy peace with the rebellious tribes. They took Severus' ashes back to Rome where they arrived on 4 May. But the agreement between Caracalla and Geta was short-lived and Caracalla ended up murdering his brother in his mother's arms after accusing him of wanting to conspire against him. Geta was doomed to "damnatio memoriae". Papinien, the prefect of the praetorium, the son of Pertinax as well as twenty thousand partisans of Geta were liquidated. Caracalla remained alone august.