WELL THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Dear Friends,

Yes it arrived today, my second Geta Tetradrachm from Seleucia and Pieria, Laodice at Mare.
So this is how Geta looked before he died !!
I love this coin portrait, finally I got one !!

Make my day....

 

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Wow, thats something. A Geta tet. of any sort is a feather in a cap. Congrats. Jealous.

 

Very nice capture! NICE piece. I really like Eagles, I love Tets, so I would grab that one any day! Rare find! Congratulations.

I only have a humble Geta Denarius...


Roman Imperial
Geta 209-211 CE
AR Denarius
On horse spearing enemy

And, I will hearken back to perhaps one of his ancestors from the Republic...???

Roman Republic
C Hosidius & C F Geta 68 BCE
Diana bow quiver
Boar Hound spear
Sear 346 Crawford 407/2

 

Well, at least that's what Geta looked like to Greeks in the far flung reaches of the Empire. Handsome portrait on that coin, that's for sure, but I don't know if that's very realistic of what Gaeta looked like just before death. I've seen some Rome issues from Geta later in life that show him with a beard.

Update; @Alegandron just posted one of those bearded Geta portraits I was referring to.

 

That's the first type I've ever seen.....It's so stylistically different that I would have wondered if it was genuine or not.

Congrats on such an unusual and cool TET !!!!

 

There is the short beard and the long beard.


Geta (209 - 211 A.D.)
AR Denarius
O: P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT ,laureate head right .
R: LIBERALITAS AVG V , LIberalitas standing left with counting board and cornucopiae .
Rome Mint, 211 A.D.
3.7g
18mm
RIC 88, RSC 68

 

Well bought at Naumann !! so good for sure.

 

Here some others, it is indeed a very rare coin...


https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=

https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=

 

oh wow that's awesome, and it looks like it was minted yesterday. sweet!

my best looking geta...

 

Well, I haven't a clue what you guys are talking about. I accidentally clicked on ancients and saw a title of what I thought to be a thread about Scottish immortals

 

Perhaps the dark side is beckoning you?

 

This is how it starts...

 

Sweet coin!

 

Naaa... #VAMmer4Life

 

quite funny you mean this guy, he is fake...my coin not

 

We have turned folks like you before.

Ha me too.

@Cyrrhus The coin is awesome and so is the Highlander (first one only, and several episodes of the TV show with Methos)

 

Methos was great. And good ole mortal Joe. Methos was one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse! I loved the show more than the movies. I was a teenager in the 90s and always pretended I was Richie. Total Highlander geek here. Adrian Paul was much better than Christopher Lambert. The Kurgan was the best part of the movie. And don't even get me started on the crap sandwich that was Highlander 2

Sorry for the OT rant guys, back to your Monopoly money dicussions

 

Nope, these guys...
Now I'm reminiscing

 

Ok, now back to coins lol

 

Probably the gnarliest dialog ever.