v13_0419 - CARACALLA Denier
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 137.20 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 137.20 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 211
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 550 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Patine foncée. Très joli revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Caracalla à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Antoninus Pius Augustus Britannicus", (Antonin pieux auguste Britannique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P XIIII - COS III P P.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à droite sur une proue de navire, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas quartus decimus Consul tertius Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la quatorzième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Historical background
CARACALLA
(05/27/196-04/8/217)
Augustus with Geta
Septimius Severus died in York on February 4, 211. Caracalla and Geta hastened to halt operations in Britain and achieve an uneasy peace with the rebellious tribes. They took Severus' ashes back to Rome where they arrived on 4 May. But the agreement between Caracalla and Geta was short-lived and Caracalla ended up murdering his brother in his mother's arms after accusing him of wanting to conspire against him. Geta was doomed to "damnatio memoriae". Papinien, the prefect of the praetorium, the son of Pertinax as well as twenty thousand partisans of Geta were liquidated. Caracalla remained alone august.
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