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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 3257788, member: 88401&quot;]<b>[ATTACH=full]856328[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]856330[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b>Bought in ebay auction as an -Anonymous Bronze Ancient Roman coin. It measures 32 MM and weighs 14.16 Grams&nbsp; attributed by [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] on CT. one of those rare lucky windfalls on ebay!</b></p><p><b>note from CNG archives: Tarsus, Cilicia. Caracalla. 198-217. Tetrassarion (Bronze, 31mm, 16.26 g 6), c. 214-217. ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ CΕΥΗΡ[ΟC ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC] CΕΒ Π Π Laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right, seen from behind. Rev. ΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΝΗC CΕΟΥΗΡ....... ΤΑΡCΟΥ ΜΚΑ /ΓΒ Triptolemos, sowing grain with his right hand and holding a grain sack in his left, standing right in car drawn by two serpents to right. SNG Levante 1049 (this coin).&nbsp; A rare and most interesting piece of fine style. Dark green patina. Good very fine.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #00b300">One of the only good reports about Caracalla is this piece about his positive relationship with the Jews. Who woulda thunk it?</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #00b300"><b>CARACALLA, MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS</b>°, Roman emperor 211–217, the eldest son of Emperor Septimius *Severus . The reign of Caracalla was a continuation of the period of rapprochement between the Roman Empire and the Jewish people begun by his father Severus. Contemporary legal sources (<i>Corpus Juris Civilis, Digesta</i> 50:2, 3) indicate that both emperors granted Jews honorary offices in the cities of the Empire on the condition that their religion not come into play. The Church Father *Jerome also refers to their friendship with the Jews in his commentary on Daniel (11:34), and an inscription found in the Kasyoun synagogue in Galilee (Frey, Corpus, 2, no. 972) expresses the friendship of the Jews with these two emperors. Some scholars hold that *Judah ha-Nasi&#039;s friendship with Antoninus refers to Caracalla, who was also known by this name. According to <i>Historia Augusta</i> (Caracalla 1:6), Caracalla was a child of seven when he first disclosed his sympathy toward Jews. This source also mentions that Septimius Severus agreed that his son was to hold a triumphal procession, and the Senate voted for a &quot;Jewish triumph&quot; (Severus 16:6–8). Caracalla&#039;s political move to grant Roman citizenship to all free residents of the empire (212 C.E.) naturally affected the masses of Jews as well, and though its purpose was to simplify taxation and legal procedures in the empire, its effect was that parity was nominally granted to the Jews for the first time. from Jewish Virtual Library online</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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