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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4620795, member: 19463"]I am sure I have shown all these before but they seem to pertain to some degree. First are the Septimius and Domna versions of the OP coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144110[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1144107[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Two rather similar coins of Anchialus celebrating the games in honor of Caracalla's wedding.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1144106[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>An AE39 of Perinthus celebrating the successes of the city at the Actian and Pythian games (reverse left and right). My coin is low grade but this type would be spectacular in EF. Obviously the one sold by CNG was better (and, appropriately, sold for 45 times what I paid).</p><p><a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62466" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62466" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62466</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144109[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Again my specimen of the Domna AE29 from Sardes is outshown by the CNG coin:</p><p><a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20705" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20705" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20705</a></p><p>BUT I will never understand how they got their reading of the first line under the urn. I see Chrisanthina or "Golden flowered" describing the city and its two Neokourate temples described in the following two lines.[ATTACH=full]1144108[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the ultimate 'brotherly love' coin is the Stratonicaea AE34 issued while the brothers were young but 'modified' when the city interpreted Caracalla's edit that the memory of Geta to be erased to include scraping his face from the coins. This on has the Hecate reverse and is ex. PeteB. [ATTACH=full]1144120[/ATTACH]</p><p>Finally is the coin of those in my collection that I consider most valuable in interest and possibly in cost since to get it I had to buy a large lot of other coins for more than I ever pay for coins. The Alexandrian tetradrachm of Domna shows Caracalla and Geta shaking hands and is dated LK, year 20, placing it after Septimius died in 211. I suspect production of the coin would have 'bothered' Caracalla and certainly would have stopped when Geta was murdered. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only coin from any city showing the two together after the death of their father. Several cities issued coins of the pair when Septimius was alive and encouraging their 'brotherly love'. I have to wonder what the mintmaster in Alexandria was thinking and whether he suffered any punishment for this error. This is my favorite coin obtained in the last 50 years. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144111[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4620795, member: 19463"]I am sure I have shown all these before but they seem to pertain to some degree. First are the Septimius and Domna versions of the OP coin. [ATTACH=full]1144110[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1144107[/ATTACH] Two rather similar coins of Anchialus celebrating the games in honor of Caracalla's wedding. [ATTACH=full]1144105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1144106[/ATTACH] An AE39 of Perinthus celebrating the successes of the city at the Actian and Pythian games (reverse left and right). My coin is low grade but this type would be spectacular in EF. Obviously the one sold by CNG was better (and, appropriately, sold for 45 times what I paid). [URL]https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62466[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1144109[/ATTACH] Again my specimen of the Domna AE29 from Sardes is outshown by the CNG coin: [URL]https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20705[/URL] BUT I will never understand how they got their reading of the first line under the urn. I see Chrisanthina or "Golden flowered" describing the city and its two Neokourate temples described in the following two lines.[ATTACH=full]1144108[/ATTACH] Perhaps the ultimate 'brotherly love' coin is the Stratonicaea AE34 issued while the brothers were young but 'modified' when the city interpreted Caracalla's edit that the memory of Geta to be erased to include scraping his face from the coins. This on has the Hecate reverse and is ex. PeteB. [ATTACH=full]1144120[/ATTACH] Finally is the coin of those in my collection that I consider most valuable in interest and possibly in cost since to get it I had to buy a large lot of other coins for more than I ever pay for coins. The Alexandrian tetradrachm of Domna shows Caracalla and Geta shaking hands and is dated LK, year 20, placing it after Septimius died in 211. I suspect production of the coin would have 'bothered' Caracalla and certainly would have stopped when Geta was murdered. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only coin from any city showing the two together after the death of their father. Several cities issued coins of the pair when Septimius was alive and encouraging their 'brotherly love'. I have to wonder what the mintmaster in Alexandria was thinking and whether he suffered any punishment for this error. This is my favorite coin obtained in the last 50 years. [ATTACH=full]1144111[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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