Caracalla Pautalias serpent with radiate bust

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  1. Joseph Sarkissian

    Joseph Sarkissian Active Member

    I have been trying to find this radiate version of Caracalla on this particular coiled serpent provincial of Pautalias, but so far haven't been able to attribute it to any coin online. This also brings up one question which I would appreciate if someone clarified: the radiate bust!! I read that sometime mid-first century AD the radiate crown was used to distinguish between a Dupontium and the As. Also, that Augusti were the only ones brandishing the radiate crown on their coins. At what point did Caracalla (or others for that matter) switch a laureate head with a radiate one?

    Caracalla Dupontius 15.28g AE30 211-217AD (assuming) radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right AVT M AVRH ANTΩNINOC / Coiled serpent with head right OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC

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    Joseph Sarkissian, Feb 3, 2019
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  3. Roman Collector

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    Ruzicka, long considered the definitive reference on the coins of Pautalia, only lists this reverse type associated with a laureate head or bust. No radiate head in that reference.
     
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