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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7303414, member: 110350&quot;]Plautilla and Caracalla clasping hands. That sure turned out well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plautilla (wife of Caracalla; issued under Septimius Severus), AR Denarius, 203-204 AD, Rome Mint.&nbsp; Obv. Draped bust right, hair in horizontal waves and drawn into large bun at back, PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE / Rev. Caracalla standing left, holding volumen with left hand and clasping right hands with Plautilla standing right, PROPAGO IMPERI. Short hairline flan crack. RIC IV (Caracalla) 362, RSC III (Plautilla) 21, Sear RCV II 7073 (ill.). 18 mm., 3.30 g., 6 h. [<i>First appearance of reverse legend PROPAGO IMPERI, celebrating the hoped-for continuation of the Severan house through the union of Caracalla and Plautilla. Cf. RIC IV 367, showing Pietas (representing Plautilla) on reverse holding child, believed to have been issued to celebrate the 204 AD birth of child who died in infancy.</i>]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1277242[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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