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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7993858, member: 91461&quot;]A descendant of&nbsp; Julius Caesar&#039;s first wife, the only wife to give Caesar a child, Julia. Plautilla would do Caracalla the same favor, as coin evidence reportedly shows proof of them having a daughter, though I have never seen such a coin.</p><p>She was a child bride. A very common practice in Rome at the time. Though, some accounts have her as being several years older than Caracalla, if she was born the same year or year after Caracalla as most assert, she would have been as young as 13 when they married: [ATTACH=full]1386669[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Youthful, beautiful and spoiled beyond what few at the times could imagine, Plautilla was dead by her early 20s)</p><p><br /></p><p>Plautilla was born in the very highest of elite society that Rome had to offer. Her Plebeian heritage went all the way back to the republic. She was daughter to Hortensianus and Gaius Fulvius Plautius, leader of the Praetorian Guard, cousin of Septimius Severus (making her Caracalla&#039;s second cousin) and well, a beast of a man:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386666[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Herakles 2.0 anyone? And how did this brute father that angel???)</p><p><br /></p><p>The cousins decided to have their two children, Plautilla and Caracalla, marry.</p><p>By all accounts Caracalla felt nothing for her (as a possible sociopath, he may have felt nothing for anyone). Supposedly she would spend with reckless abandon. Probably a habit most of the elite ladies of Rome suffered. Caracalla hated this and her openly.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386727[/ATTACH]</p><p>(would this have been a scene the young empress was used to or would the elite have had a more personalized experience while the &quot;shopped til they dropped&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>There was some sort of falling out between Septimius and Gaius. Some say Septy was being paranoid others that Gaius indeed did commit treacherous acts. Either way he was executed while Plautilla and her brother were both exiled.</p><p>The 2 lived a ragged and abused existence until Caracalla finally had them put to death via strangulation (probably before having his own brother, Geta, murdered in front of their mother, but shortly after the death of his father, Septimius).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386725[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Both Julia Domna and Plautilla had pitiful existences once all was said and done)</p><p><br /></p><p>The last 6 years of her life were those of misery. And some may say double so, as she had gone from the highest of highs to the lowest lows.</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest acquisition has one of my very favorite portraits and hairstyles of my Roman Empresses. Normally seen with her cornrows flowing backwards here they are sideways (though, I doubt her hairstylist would appreciate her hairstyle being compared to basic braids). And ironically with Concordia on the reverse. I can feel their love and Concordia through the ages:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386717[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Plautilla</u></b></p><p>(AD 202-205). AR denarius (18mm, 2.86 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 202-205. PLAVTILLA-AVGVSTA, draped bust of Plautilla right, seen from front, hair coiled in ridges and fastened in large chignon / CONCORDIA-AVGG, Concordia standing facing, head left, patera in right hand, scepter in left. RIC IV.I (Caracalla) 363a. Purchased from Heritage Auctions October 2021</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386718[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Here she is rocking the same hairstyle as on the coin...though somebody so rudely knocked off her nose!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my first coin of hers with the more common hairstyle:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386722[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>PLAUTILLA</u></b></p><p>(202-205). Denarius. Rome.</p><p>Obv: PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE.</p><p>Draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: PROPAGO IMPER.</p><p>Plautilla standing right, clasping hands with Caracalla, standing left.</p><p>RIC 361.</p><p>2.71 g.18 mm. fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s her esteemed father-in-law:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Septimius Severus</u></b></p><p>(193-211 AD). AR Denarius (19 mm, 3.20 g), Roma, 200 AD.</p><p>Obv. SEVERVS AVG PART MAX, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev. PM TR P VIII COS II PP, Victory advancing left, holding open wreath over shield set on low base.</p><p>RIC 150. Nice portrait. Good very fine. Former: Auctiones GmbH</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And her not so esteemed hubby probably around the age that they married:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386732[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Caracalla</u></b></p><p>198-217 AD</p><p>Silver Denarius (2.91 gm)</p><p>Rome Mint</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG ; Laureate draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: FELICITAS AVGG ; Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus &amp; cornucopia.</p><p>RIC IV 127 ; RSC 64</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]iDhx2eJVr4M[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to see others coins of Plautilla, the other key players in her story, the supposed coin that is evidence of her and Caracalla&#039;s daughter, this facts or anything else that adds to the discussion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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