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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4703299, member: 89514&quot;]As to chronology, 19 was Septimius&#039; last year at Caesarea.</p><p><br /></p><p>After Septimius&#039; death in Feb. 211, Caracalla reduced his year count to 14 and Geta to 3, reckoning from the dates when they had been proclaimed Augusti, Jan. 198 for Caracalla and late 209 for Geta.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins dated by this new reckoning are not well published, but I have two drachms of Geta Augustus dated Year Γ=3, and four of Julia Domna dated Years IΔ and Γ, that is 14 for Caracalla and 3 for Geta. BM 254 = Sydenham 446 also list such a drachm of Domna dated IΔ Γ, but wrongly assign it to Year 14 of Septimius=206 AD, making no attempt to explain the extra Γ. Doug&#039;s Year 20 of Domna also follows the new numbering, so is of 217 AD, not 212 as one might have thought. Sydenham 454 mysteriously dates a similar Year 20 coin of Domna to 213 AD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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