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E-Sale 102  3 Nov 2022
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Lot 735

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 420 GBP
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Caracalla, with Geta, as Caesar, Æ 38mm of Stratonicea, Caria. AD 198-217. [...]ANTΩ[...] confronted laureate, draped and cuirassed busts of [Geta, to right], and Caracalla, to left; c/m: bust to left / [ΠPY ZΩΣIMOU ΠPOΣITTOU STPA]TΩNЄIKЄΩN, Hecate standing to left, holding patera and torch; hound standing to left at feet. SNG von Aulock 2962; Howgego 84 (for countermark); CNG E-Auction 306, 258 (hammer: 850 USD). 19.39g, 37mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

From the inventory of a UK dealer.

It is believed that the portrait of Geta was removed as part of the damnatio memoriae following his murder in AD 212.
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