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CARIA, Alinda. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 16.80 g, 1h). Marcus Ulpius Uliades Leon, archon. Struck circa AD 202-203. Confronted busts of Caracalla right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Plautilla left, draped and wearing stephane; c/m: laureate head right in oval incuse / Apollo standing facing, head left, holding plectrum and lyre. Karl 79; SNG von Aulock 2413 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 26. For c/m: Howgego 69. Dark brown surfaces, reverse roughness. Coin and c/m VF.
From the D.K. Collection. Ex Naville Numismatics 24 (17 July 2016), lot 298; Lanz 92 (4 April 1999), lot 866.
Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as "the new goddess Hera." As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): "By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one."
From the D.K. Collection. Ex Naville Numismatics 24 (17 July 2016), lot 298; Lanz 92 (4 April 1999), lot 866.
Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as "the new goddess Hera." As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): "By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one."