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Lot 307

Estimate: 450 USD
Price realized: 450 USD
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Geta. Sestertius; Geta; 209-211 AD, Rome, 210 AD, Sestertius, 19.40g. BM-214, pl. 59.1 (same obv. die); RIC-159b (R3); C-145 (50 Fr.). Obv: [I]MP CAES P SEPT - GETA PIVS AVG Bust laureate r. Rx: PONTIF TR P II COS [II] around, S [C] in exergue, Caracalla and Geta, both togate and veiled, standing face to face and sacrificing from pateras over lighted and garlanded altar and prostrate bull between them; in center background, flute player, half length, playing flutes. One of Geta's commonest reverse types on sestertii, so overvalued by Cohen at 50 francs and by RIC at R3.. VF
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