v21_2796 - CARACALLA Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 199
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Laodicée, (Laodicea ad Mare)
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Caracalla à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Antoninus Augustus", (Antonin Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICIT-AS AVGG.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augustorum”, (La Félicité des augustes).
Commentary
Portrait tout à fait représentatif de l’atelier de Laodicée.
Historical background
CARACALLA
(05/27/196-04/8/217)
Augustus with Septimius Severus
Caracalla was named Augustus in April 198 before the great Parthian victory. In 202, he married the daughter of the prefect of Praetorian Plautian, Plautille, who would be relegated three years later. In 204, the celebration of the Secular Games begins. Septimius Severus tries to impose the image of the new dynasty. Caracalla celebrates his decennalia in 207 and accompanies his father to Africa. He then joined his father in Brittany at the end of the year 208 when the Roman armies experienced their first successes there..
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