CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 22.12 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Near VF.

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Lot: 355. Estimated: $ 150

Roman Provincial, Bronze

Sold For $ 140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Plautilla. AD 198-217. Æ (37mm, 22.12 g, 12h). Tiberius Claudius Dionysios, president of the college of the grammateis. Struck AD 202-205. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis draped bust of Plautilla; c/m: laureate and draped bust of Caracalla right, within oval incuse / Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in right hand and torch in left; at feet left, dog standing left, looking right. RPC V.2 Online 73628; BMC 65; SNG von Aulock 2694. For c/m: Howgego 84. Dark brown patina with earthen highlights, 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: 19 March 2025 at 11:58:00 ET.

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