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Message:: [QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 2863824, member: 80783"]Then my Denarius (still in the mail) should also be of that type (like all Venus Victrix reverses):[ATTACH=full]682796[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]682797[/ATTACH] The portrait on my Plautilla Limes As also has the ears covered, so thanks to your post I can now date it to 204 (when that last type was introduced) or January 205, because I doubt that the legions on the Rhine frontier or elsewhere dared to cast emergency coinage with the portrait of Plautilla after she was exiled and her father executed. [ATTACH=full]682800[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]682799[/ATTACH] The theory that Caracalla and Plautilla might have had a child has been refuted in Achim Lichtenbergers study "Severus Pius Augustus: Studien zur sakralen Repräsentation und Rezeption der Herrschaft des Septimius Severus und seiner Familie", P. 274-276).According to Kienast ("Römische Kaisertabelle", P.164), Caracalla produced no (known) children at all.The monography on Caracalla edited by the state museum Baden-Württemberg does not know of any children,  neither does Spielvogel´s monography on Septimius Severus, nor do Cassius Dio or the Historia Augusta.According to David Sear, it is doubtful that the marriage between Caracalla and Plautilla was ever even consummated.[/QUOTE]