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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1843998, member: 57495&quot;]Here&#039;s a provincial bronze of Caracalla I picked up at a recent auction that no one else seemed interested in.&nbsp; It&#039;s big, has bold contrasting colors, and an interesting reverse to boot.&nbsp; What&#039;s not to love?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]306897[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>CARACALLA</b></p><p>AE of PISIDIA Antiochia, 27.03g, 33mm</p><p>Krzyzanovska dies XXVII/–; SNG France 1173-4 var. (arrangement of rev. legend; same obv die).&nbsp; </p><p>O: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.&nbsp; </p><p>R: COL CAES ANTIOCH, S-R across fields, Mên standing facing, head right, left foot on bucranium, leaning on low cippus, holding sceptre and Nike on a globe, rooster standing left.</p><p>Ex Malter XLIV (29 May 1990), lot 1149.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an interesting bit of trivia from the entry for the god Mên in Wikipedia.&nbsp; However, since it&#039;s from <i>Historia Augusta</i>, some may judge it as not being entirely reliable : </p><p>&quot;The Augustan History has the Roman emperor Caracalla venerate Lunus at Carrhae; this has been taken as a Latinized name for Men. The same source records the local opinion that anyone who believes the deity of the moon to be feminine shall always be subject to women, whereas a man who believes that he is masculine will dominate his wife.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And as a bonus, here&#039;s part of the Caracalla murder scene from HA : &quot;On the eighth day before the Ides of April, the feast of the Megalensia and his own birthday, while on a journey to Carrhae to do honour to the god Lunus, he stepped aside to satisfy the needs of nature and was thereupon assassinated by the treachery of Macrinus the prefect of the guard, who after his death seized the imperial power.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ve got any provincial coins from Antiochia in Pisidia you&#039;d like to tag on, go ahead and post away!</p><p><br /></p><p>Z.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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