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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37.5mm, 27.06 g, 12h). Claudius Nikephoros, son of Dionysios, prytanis. Struck circa AD 202-203. VF.
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Triton XXVIII
Live bidding began Jan 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37.5mm, 27.06 g, 12h). Claudius Nikephoros, son of Dionysios, prytanis. Struck circa AD 202-203. AY K AN KAI ΘЄ CЄB NЄ ΠΛAYTIΛΛAN, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis draped bust of Plautilla; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / ЄΠI TΩN NЄΠ ΠЄP TB KΛ ΔIOИYCIO И CTPATOИЄIKЄΩИ, Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in right hand and torch in left; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. Cf. BMC 65 (different magistrate, same obverse); cf. CNG E-563, lot 461 (same magistrate, different obverse). For c/ms: Howgego 188 and 536. Dark brown patina with green highlights, minor marks and scratches, slight die shift on reverse. VF. Presently unique.
Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicaea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as “the new goddess Hera.” As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): “By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one.”
The obverse die used for this coin is known for a similar type struck by the grammateus Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, but not Claudius Nikephoros. Another unique feature of this coin is the reverse legend beginning at 10:00 o’clock, the legend typically begins at 7:00.
The final winners of all Triton XXVIII lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 14-15 January 2025.
Triton XXVIII – Session Two – Lot 288–557 will be held Tuesday afternoon, 14 January 2025 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
Three Carian cities - Alinda, Alabanda, and Stratonicaea - commemorated the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla by issuing coins with dual portraits proclaiming the young empress as “the new goddess Hera.” As Ken Harl notes (Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East: A.D. 180-275 [Berkeley, CA: University of California Press], p. 41): “By implication, Caracalla was envisioned as a youthful Zeus, so that the imperial marriage became a symbolic reenactment of the celestial one.”
The obverse die used for this coin is known for a similar type struck by the grammateus Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, but not Claudius Nikephoros. Another unique feature of this coin is the reverse legend beginning at 10:00 o’clock, the legend typically begins at 7:00.
The final winners of all Triton XXVIII lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 14-15 January 2025.
Triton XXVIII – Session Two – Lot 288–557 will be held Tuesday afternoon, 14 January 2025 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.
Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.
We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.
