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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7956417, member: 98035&quot;]The only 100% certain damnatio coins I&#039;m aware of are the provincials of Caracalla (or Septimius) and Geta where Geta is fully scratched off and replaced by a counterstamp (none to share, I made up my mind to finally win one only *after* they doubled in average hammer price).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another is more rare, but some coins of Bilbilis have had Sejanus&#039; name deliberately removed - Wikipedia has one, but I&#039;ve never seen one at auction (the type as a whole is pretty rare anyway).</p><p><br /></p><p>Less certain, I saw a denarius of Paulina pop up at a couple auctions where the coin is in good shape, but for whatever reason someone in antiquity decided to remove the entire peacock-apotheosis scene from the reverse. Can&#039;t easily find it, but it sold at least twice in the past 18-24 months.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s worth noting that aside from the famous cases of Geta or Sejanus, some individuals seem to have undergone a successful Damnatio...</p><p><br /></p><p>We know functionally nothing at all about Severina - were it not for the striking resemblance to Aurelian, and her presence on the back of some his coins, we would be unable to determine whose wife she was, as no history mentions her. Perhaps because it is widely believed that she served as the de facto sole empress for several months, and may have refused to step down... after her coins had been in circulation too long to recall effectively?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379329[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Carinus was a legitimate emperor who was deposed by the usurper Diocletian after a lengthy battle for control of his half of the empire. All that remains of his history is Diocletian&#039;s smear campaign - that he was a ruthless tyrant, a womanizer, and was justly murdered by an angry officer whom he had cuckolded. No opposing accounts exist, but the scarce issues of his wife Magnia Urbica (who is totally absent from history and previously thought to be the wife of Carus) and their deified and tenderly-depicted young son Nigrinian cast doubt on the claim that he had married 9 women in quick succession in just a year, and thus give us reason to doubt anything we know about him, save that he was the son of Carus and brother to Numerian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379333[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379334[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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