http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ea7d909fe0fc4c93399d50463&id=f2ba492f07&e=093eb01f70 Some of you may get the weekly email from vCoins with This Week in History. Today's edition was in two parts. Do not read the second part on Geta. I have written to vCoins and to Beast simply being unable to see how this could have made it into print. The errors exceed the correct material. On second thought, read it and see if you can see the problems. This is not a typo or something easily written off as confusion but just plain error.
Doug is right. The vCoins Geta story got dates wrong. Look here for a short page with the correct dates and the story of Geta's evolving portraits (and his name change!) http://esty.ancients.info/Geta/
While I do recommend Warren's page on the subject, I also recommend Bill Welch's page to which Warren links at the bottom of his page. I do not recommend my page but you can read it anyway. My page has few answers so it makes fewer mistakes. I did not state the date for Geta's death (some say December; some February 212). I did not take sides on why the early coins of Geta were Lucius and later ones Publius. Caracalla was Lucius before his name was changed to Marcus in Septimius' period of reverse adoption into the family of Marcus Aurelius. I doubt calling his brother by his name would have set well with Caracalla. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/geta.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta The vCoins blurb seems to have been copied from Wikipedia but bolloxed the dates from the correct ones given in Wikipedia. There is nothing wrong with copying from Wikipedia where a Creative Common Licence prevails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip...s_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License In the old days we did not encourage cut and paste level copying but it seems to be the way of the world in 2016. Many here do it on every coin they attribute. The idea behind Wikipedia and free information exchange on the Internet (notice that Warren, Bill and I all have web pages that do not charge an entrance fee just as do a hundred other coin websites). Part of the obligation of free information exchange is to apply care when copying so you get it right.
Oh no... I cut and paste your postings all the time for my reference database... Looks like I am gonna hafta delete everything you have said! Kinda like a damnatio memoriae.
