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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2122102, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll offer two Caracalla types unlikely to have been seen elsewhere.&nbsp; First is a denarius that is probably barbarous but looks a lot like what might be expected if there had been official Syrian issues for him in the &#039;Old Style&#039; period.&nbsp; The reverse is the BONI EVENTVS standing common to Septimius.&nbsp; The obverse portrait is younger than the first Laodicea Caracalla issues.&nbsp; This is the only one I have seen.&nbsp; Perhaps it is barbarous; perhaps it was made by mint staff after the mint was closed.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never know for sure.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]402390[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Jumping all the intervening issues, the last Caracalla coins are posthumous.&nbsp; Scholars of the past have disputed whether the DIVO ANTONINO MAGNO issues were coined under Elagabalus or Severus Alexander so I&#039;ll go out on a limb and suggest we attribute them to the real power in the period Julia Maesa.&nbsp; Sestertii of the type are considerably more rare than the precious metals and all show a pyre with 5 layers.&nbsp; Banti lists and illustrates with a drawing a four layer coin reported by Valliant but unknown today.&nbsp; My coin is a bronze disease survivor with considerable excavation on the obverse.&nbsp; Is it the remains of the coin Valliant saw? Was it tooled from a 5 layer coin? The obverse is the same die as a known Divus sestertius so I do not believe it is a total fabrication.&nbsp; Its condition would keep it from being of interest to the crowd with money so I need to find someone to give it to when I&#039;m done with it.&nbsp; I know no one who specializes in Caracalla. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402391[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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