Bought myself a nice Caracalla denarius for my birthday. Hope you like it, I've been looking for the right one for a while... Attribution: RIC 240 (RIC IV, Part I), RSC 239 Date: 198-217 AD Obverse: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM laureate bust right Reverse: P M TR P XVII COS IIII P P Jupiter standing left holding thunderbolt and scepter, eagle at feet to left Size: 18mm Weight: 3.07 grams
Brian,that is a very nice Denarius,even though it contains a reference to Emperor Antoninus Pius in the title. I did see an example of a Mark Antony Legionary Denarius in someone's ancient coin display at a show last Saturday. Aidan
Caracalla's real name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Many of his coins, as well as those of Elagabalus, use some form of Antonius Pius in the obverse legend.
Caracalla and Elagabalus looked similar and both used the Antoninus Pius name on their coins. A website with Caracalla and Elagabalus coin information: http://dougsmith.ancients.info/car-elag.html
Very nice coin AnemicOak!Your collection of AP (almost perfect) specimens is growing every day.You have the German version and I have the British. My Caracalla is also about "as struck" and is probably the cleanest denarius I own.Looks like it just left the mint,which hopefully it didn't..LOL The second two pics are for Aidan.:smile
