Ancients => Geta-Geta-Geta-Getaway!! (3rd Wagon-Coin)

Castor, huh ... goin' for the coin's flip-side credit, eh?

=> well played, Ripley ... well played!!

 

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Obvious question: Why just Castor? Where is the Pollux coin?

 

Huh, you're right ... that is very interesting/odd ... why is it just Castor?

Pollux = Caracalla?
Castor = Geta?

Doug => what is the skinny?

 

Because Castor was mortal, and Pollux immortal? Was Geta's brother trying to tell him something?

 

that's the first thing that came to mind for me....where's the other guy? i bet stevex and med are on to something metaphoically there.​

nice lookin' coins everyone.....i'm "getaless" for the time being.​

 

I think this explanation is the reason why.

 

Geta as Caesar
AE15
AD 195-198
Nikopolis ad Istrum
L AVR K - GETAC
Bare head right
NIKOPOLITWN PROC I.
Crescent with 1 6-pointed star in the cavity with dots at the points
15mm
2.0g

ref. a) not in AMNG:
rev. AMNG I/1, 1648
obv. AMNG I/1, 1649
b) cf. Varbanov (engl.) 3236 (= AMNG 1648)
c) not in Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2012):
rev. No. 8.22.48.5 (same die)
obv. e.g. No. 8.22.6.3 (central coin, same die)
Nikopolis Addenda II #216 (second known)

 

There it is => that's a great coin, WC (I love that example!!)

... well, I'm gonna go outside into the great outdoors for awhile (I'll talk to you dudes later)

 

WC: I have a similar coin issued by Geta's father:

 

Here is a short web page on Geta's portraits:
http://esty.ancients.info/Geta/
It is interesting that his name changed after his first issue from L. Septimius Geta to P. Septimius Geta.

 

I did collect the denarii of Geta as Augustus at one point.There are some interesting coins in these issues.

Obv:– P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, Laureate head right
Rev:– TR P III COS II P P, Janus, two-headed, standing front, looking left and right, naked to waist, holding vertical reverse spear in right hand and thunderbolt in left.
Minted in Rome. A.D. 211
Reference:– BMC P. 422, 13. RIC 79 (Scarce). RSC 197. 19 examples in RD.