Syria, Caracalla : Tetradrachm

Hey, he's just big boned!

Haha! Cool drawing, I'm going to save it.

 

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Well that if you want to become an artist I can give you a few pointers.

 

Wonderful OP of Caracalla!!!

I think he was totally misunderstood........he simply liked sucking lemons as he sat for portraits

 

That or he needed prunes...

 

Wait it just occurred to me that I have a similar bronze coin to the OP's. So it's not a tetradrachm or from Syria but it has Caracalla and an eagle with a wreath...


Marcianopolis, Caracalla, AD 198-217
AE27, 10.2g, 6h.
Obv.: ΠIOC AVΓ ANTΩNINOC; Laureate head right, seen from behind.
Rev.: YΠ KYNTIΛIANOY MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN (Quintillianus magistrate); Eagle standing left on globe, head right, holding wreath.

 

Anybody know what the proportions of silver to copper these tets were made of and for how much would they traffic in the market place vis a vis the contemporary imperial denarius? Would these coins have circulated in the Latin West?

 

Ummm, is my Syrian Eagle Elagabalus Tet allowed to join the Caracalla party?

Syria - Elagabalus - AR Tetradrachm
219-220 AD
Diameter: 26 mm
Weight: 12.80 grams
Obverse: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: Eagle standing facing on ground line, head left, holding wreath in beak; D - E on either side, star between legs



... he is always complaining that he never gets to meet new coins ...

=> oh, and he brought a box of angry bees as a cool present

 

Very nice OP Caracalla tet @icerain !

Here are my two caracalla's tets, as for Geta, one from Antioch with a classic portrait, and one from Laodicea with a more oriental style portrait


Caracalla, Tetradrachm struck in Antioch, c.209-212 AD
AVT KAI ANTWNEIN C CEB, Laureate bust of Caracalla right
DHMARX.....PATO.TO.TOG, Eagle facing with wreath in beak
13.65 gr
Ref : Sear #2649 var, Prieur # 214A_001 (unique to date with this reverse legend lacking C : "should" be TOC.TOG. Thanks to Michel Prieur (RIP !) for the additionnal informations)



Caracalla, Tetradrachm struck in Laodicea ad Mare in 209- 212 AD
AVT KAI ANTWNEINOC CE, Laureate bust of Caracalla right
DHMARX EX VPATOC GO G, Eagle facing, holding wreath in beak, a star between legs
12.08 gr
Ref : Sear #2659 var, Prieur # 1176_028

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Hey I snuck in Herennius Etruscus and a bronze provincial from Marcianopolis and didn't get any demerits so I think you'll be fine!