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Auction 126  28-29 May 2024
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Estimate: 500 USD
Current bid: 400 USD
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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla & Geta. AD 209-211. Æ (34mm, 21.85 g, 7h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta]; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathus, holding patera and torch; at feet left, lighted altar. Cf. Leu EA 23, lot 3627 (same obv. die, same magistrate). For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Brown patina, light porosity, flan adjustment marks. Near EF. Very rare. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla's damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
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