Review: For "Fans" of Caracalla

Keeping it in the family, here's one of Geta. AE28 of Nikopolis ad Istrum. Obverse, bust of emperor. Reverse, Nemesis standing left, holding scales,wheel at foot.

Sear GIC 2782

 

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The obverse is too dark to see much. Here it is lighten by Picasa:

 

Thanks Bing! Picasa seems to have been shut down I noticed yesterday, replaced by google photos. You can still crop photos, change the light and darkness, and so on, as you have done. No doubt with more practice I'll get better.

 

I believe you can still download Picasa, but if Google photos works in a similar fashion, go for it. Another program I use is Pixir: http://pixlr.com/editor/

 

Syrian tetradrachms of Caracalla have interesting portraits. Here is one from Tyre:


27-25 mm. 13.99 grams.
eagle front on club, body slightly right, head turned back to left. Murex shell between legs.
Prier 1551. This one is struck as COS 4 (Δ at the end of the reverse legend), 213-217.

 

Picasa is no longer supported by google. I used it awhile ago but stopped after it was no longer getting updated.

One could still use it, but I went to an old Windows favorite, XNview. Works great on my Mac & should still be fine on windows.

Also free and still updated.

http://www.xnview.com/en/

 

Ancient COin Hunter,

The first coin you posted is not from Nicopolis, it's from Perinthos.



Barry Murphy

 

ancient coin hunter => man, try your best to crop your photos so they just contain "your coin" ... those big nasty white photos are a bit of a "fail"

 

Who doesn't love Caracalla? The man built one of the coolest public baths in ancient Rome.

So he allegedly cut off some heads and maybe tortured a few people, but did you see those amazingly large bathing pools in his bath complex? Clearly an awesome emperor.

 

here's reshoot i did today of an caracalla coin from antioch, looks a bit better!


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Excellent Post all-around Jwt708!

I am writing an article relating to the two Roman Emperors who died at York (Septimius Severus and Constantius). Here is the preamble to Septimius Severus:

Accompanied by his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, Septimius Severus traveled from Rome to Britain in AD 208 in order to subjugate the northern Barabaric Britannic tribes and restore Hadrian's wall. He established his headquarters in northern Britain at Eboracum (York). He became seriouly ill during the campaign and died at Eboracum in AD 211.

Caracalla and Geta fought along side him as Caesars and were invested as co-Augusti in AD 211. Caracalla murdered his brother later in AD 212 to become the sole Augustus.

Do you (or anyone else here) know if Caracalla transported his Father's ashes back to Rome, and where did Caracalla murder his brother?

My Caracalla "Victory over Britannia" coin:


RIC Vol. IV, CARACALLA, Denarius, No. 231a (AD 210-211)
Obverse: Caracalla, Laureate head facing right
Inscription clockwise from bottom: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT
Reverse: winged Victory advancing right holding trophy
Inscription: VICTORIAE BRIT

 

Thanks for the kind words @jamesicus !

I do not know the answers to your questions though. Without consulting the sources (Cassius Dio, Historia Augustorium...can't remember the other) I think Geta was killed in York...shooting from the hip I remember Geta was killed in his Julia Domna's apartment and I think they were still in York at the time. Maybe Rome? Dang.

 

I'm unsure of this response, but I believe I read somewhere (?) where Sep Sev's body was transported back to Rome. I will check the sources I have, but don't bet money on this just yet.

 

I found the following on line, so, just by that fact alone, the information is suspect. I believe the burial place listed here is quite possible wrong:

Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax

Born: 11-Apr-146 AD
Birthplace: Leptis Magna, Tripolitania
Died: 4-Feb-211 AD
Location of death: Eboracum
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy

Gender: Male
Religion: Pagan
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight

 

Thank you for your effort, Bing.

 

I tried to verify Castel Saint'Angelo as the burial place of Sep Sev, but all I could find was that Hadrian was buried there. I'll take some time to look through my written (hard copy) references.

 

Again thank you Bing. Although I have been a United States citizen for many years, I was born and grew up in northern England just a few miles from Ribchester, the site of a Roman fort (very well preserved) dating from circa. 70 AD -- http://ribchesterromanmuseum.org (please use the links to learn more) -- that I used to visit frequently as a young boy. I also lived close enough to York to visit there frequently. I used to soak up all the Roman history I could and so I should know the answers to the questions I pose here. But, it has been many years since those visits and my memory is very poor now.

"There are three sure signs of growing old. The first is loss of memory ..... I have forgotten the other two!"

 

I love York!