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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wittwolf, post: 8026461, member: 116854&quot;]So Emperor Antoninus &quot;Caracalla&quot; (I wonder why are the two &quot;mad&quot; tyrants named after a piece of clothing?) is mostly known for beeing a mad brute that slaughtered his way through his life starting with his brother Geta. What is not as much common knowledge&nbsp; is that Caracalla increased the empires budget like noone else before with two ingenius tricks: Making every subject a taxpayer by giving them the prestigiuos roman citizenship and by creating a new coin that was meant to help the empire pay the army and will dominate the roman coinage system for nearly 100 years: The Antoninianus</p><p>Anyways the main reason why I wrote all this is that I won and received my first Antoninianus minted under the reign of its creator.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391089[/ATTACH]</p><p>So its not the most impressive example and the reverse is pretty much destroyed but I&#039;am still happy about it. At least the portrait is in nice condition and to be honest that part is the highlight on every Caracalla coin.</p><p><b>Also I want to add a little cry for help here</b> because I struggle a bit to indentify the reverse. I can read the legend: (PM) TRP XVIII COS IIII PP. Sadly this is the most generic legend from this type so it doesnt help me to much in identifying the most likely right looking figure on the reverse. So comparing the coin to known examples this one seems to be the most likely candidate and maybe you guys can confirm it: <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/caracalla/RIC_0258a.2.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/caracalla/RIC_0258a.2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/caracalla/RIC_0258a.2.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And as always feel free to post some of your Antoniniani from the reign of Caracalla or your favorite Caracalla portraits![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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