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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3211830, member: 56859"]I have only one Imperial Caracalla, a denarius, and it was from a large mixed lot purchased in 2013. The attribution was copied from a similar coin found in archives and I'd never gone back to study it or think about how the date was derived but it was struck in 215, the same year Caracalla changed the monetary system.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] has <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/abb.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/abb.html" rel="nofollow">a page about Imperial abbreviations</a> and using that, I can now understand how the specific date for this coin was determined. Thanks, Doug!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]834161[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Caracalla, CE 198-217</b></p><p>Rome, struck CE 215 </p><p>AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.8 gm</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right (looks like GURM instead of GERM)</p><p>Rev: PM TRP XVIII COS IIII PP; Fides standing left holding two standards</p><p>Ref: RIC 266, RSC 315, BMC 143[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3211830, member: 56859"]I have only one Imperial Caracalla, a denarius, and it was from a large mixed lot purchased in 2013. The attribution was copied from a similar coin found in archives and I'd never gone back to study it or think about how the date was derived but it was struck in 215, the same year Caracalla changed the monetary system. [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] has [URL='http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/abb.html']a page about Imperial abbreviations[/URL] and using that, I can now understand how the specific date for this coin was determined. Thanks, Doug! [ATTACH=full]834161[/ATTACH] [B]Caracalla, CE 198-217[/B] Rome, struck CE 215 AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.8 gm Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right (looks like GURM instead of GERM) Rev: PM TRP XVIII COS IIII PP; Fides standing left holding two standards Ref: RIC 266, RSC 315, BMC 143[/QUOTE]
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