brm_336388 - CARACALLA Denier
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Price : 100.00 €
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 196
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 650 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,29 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Une fine patine grise avec des reflets dorés recouvre l’exemplaire
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : M AVR ANTONINVS CAES.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue, de Caracalla à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Cæsar Pontifex”, (Marc Aurèle Antonin césar pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SEVERI AVG - PII FIL.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : lituus, couteau à sacrifices, vase (capis), simpulum et aspersoir.
Reverse translation : “Severi Augusti Pii Filius”, (À Sévère fils du pieux auguste).
Commentary
Portrait particulier. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum.
Particular portrait. Large pteryges under the paludamentum
Particular portrait. Large pteryges under the paludamentum
Historical background
CARACALLA
(05/27/196-04/8/217)
Caesar
Caracalla was born on April 4, 188 in Lyon. He is the eldest son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. On May 27, 196, he was created Caesar by his father, who had broken with Clodius Albinus. After the defeat of Albin near Lyon, on February 19, 197, he received the titles of prince of youth and pontiff. Caracalla was named Augustus in April 198 before the great Parthian victory.
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