288, Lot: 317. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LYDIA, Philadelphia. Caracalla, with Geta as Caesar. AD 198-217. Æ (38mm, 27.04 g, 7h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla right,
vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta left / Syncretic deity seated left, wearing headdress of Isis, holding Victory in right hand, staff with grain ears at top in left. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 88. Fine, reddish-brown and tan patina, some minor smoothing in fields. Rare.
From the R. D. Frederick Collection.