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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2311947, member: 76194&quot;]Caracalla wasn&#039;t always portrayed as mean in his adult coinage. Towards the very end of his reign, his portraits became quite pleasant. You can see here in this coin struck in the few months to weeks prior to his death that he was reforming his image.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, he should have kept the mean portraits that conveyed the message &quot;Don&#039;t mess with me,&quot; as it worked well to keep him alive for 20 years. This whole nicer, kinder Caracalla did not work as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Case in point, not long after this &quot;nicer&quot; Caracalla coinage came out, he turned his back on some soldiers to relieve himself, and before he could empty his bladder he ended up with a knife in his back.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]466123[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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