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Buy or Bid Sale 217  30 Nov 2021
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Lot 411

Estimate: 975 USD
Price realized: 500 USD
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Caracalla and Geta. ; Caracalla and Geta; Stratoniceia, Caria, 212 AD, AE 35-36, 23.49g. SNG Aulock-2692 (same obv. die). Obv: AV MAP AVP - AN - TONE[INOC] followed by eradicated name of Geta as Caesar; Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust of Caracalla l. with previous portrait of Geta r. scraped away; at bottom, laureate imperial portrait in round countermark (Howgego-84). Rx: Illegible magistrate\'s name followed by CTPATONIK[EON]; Hecate standing l. holding [patera] and short lighted torch, stag or altar at her feet obscured by flan flaw and flattening from countermark on obverse. Cf. CNG E306, 10 July 2013, lot 258 (same obverse die as ours, slightly worse condition, hammer $850 plus buyer\'s fee).This coin shows the erasing of Geta\'s memory by order of Caracalla . F
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