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Buy or Bid Sale 198  7 July 2016
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Lot 415

Starting price: 473 USD
Price realized: 675 USD
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Geta as Caesar; 198-209 AD, Rome, 208 AD, Denarius, 3.23g. C-122 (Vaillant, 50 Fr.), BMC-591 note, RIC-63 (R2) var., RSC-122a (with photo of Arnold spec., same dies as ours). Obv: P SEPTIMIVS - GETA CAES Bust draped r., head bare. Rx: PO - NTIF above, COS II in exergue, Geta in consular quadriga r., extending r. hand and holding eagle-tipped scepter in l. hand. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection. Very rare. This type commemorating Geta's consulship of 1 January 208 AD was struck on denarii from only two reverse dies, namely the die of our coin with legend PONTIF COS II (about five specimens known) and a second die with legend PONTIFEX COS II (about twelve known). . aEF (675)
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