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Message:: [QUOTE="Nemo, post: 2336208, member: 58462"]Here's my favorite Caracalla in my collection.[ATTACH=full]474256[/ATTACH] Caracalla. AD 198-217. AR Denarius 19.5mm, 3.3 g. Rome mint. 201 / 202 AD.O: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, Laureate and draped beardless young bust right R: PART MAX PM TR P X, trophy; at base, bound captive seated at either side. - RIC 322 A rare mule with a reverse meant for Septimius Severus. The workmen can be excused for mixing up the dies, because in 201-202 exactly the same PART MAX Trophy type was being struck for both emperors, distinguished only by their titles in the continuation of the rev. legend, so easy to confuse: PART MAX P M TR P VIIII or X or X COS III P P for Septimius, PART MAX PONT TR P IIII or V or V COS for Caracalla. Two others from the same rev. die, but different obv. dies: RIC 322 = BMC p. 385, 163, pl. 64.13; and CClay collection from eBay, Jan. 2007. Another is reported by Cohen 174 (10 francs) from the Turin collection; and there were two more in the Reka Devnia hoard.[/QUOTE]