CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (35mm, 18.55 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Near VF.

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Lot: 312.
Closing Date: Nov 20 2024 10:00 ET

Roman Provincial, Bronze

Estimate: $ 150

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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (35mm, 18.55 g, 6h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Draped bust of Plautilla vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla; c/m: laureate head of Caracalla within oval incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and torch; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. SNG Leypold 850. For c/m: Howgego 84. Dark brown patina, light porosity. Near VF.

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.”

Closing Date and Time: 20 November 2024 at 11:43:40 ET.

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