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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2673424, member: 72818&quot;]This rather rough but cool bronze caught my eye because of the reverse---that chunky, robust image of Hercules just said.... &#039;Take me home&#039;!! It also seems it may be unpublished and perhaps exceedingly scarce, rare or even unique. This specific reverse appears unknown to coins struck at Platinopolis, Thrace but numerous variations are relatively common from other mints in Thrace. The city is identified in Greek on the reverse. (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla++thrace+hercules&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;image" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla++thrace+hercules&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;image" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=caracalla thrace hercules&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;image</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, scarcity or even rarity do not necessarily equate to desirability or value, but I think it&#039;s kind of neat to own a coin that few others may ever have in their collections. I hope the more well-known Severen specialists like [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] or [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] will offer their opinion(s) about this coin. Note that there is obvious &#039;smoothing&#039; within the fields (especially the reverse) but no obvious evidence of &#039;tooling&#039;----at least none that I can recognize. In any case, since I mistakenly placed a comma with my maximum bid instead of a period, I &#039;won&#039; it at a slightly higher price than intended----perhaps &#039;fate&#039; meant it to be so LOL<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins of Caracalla, Hercules or whatever you would like to share.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>AE24 Tetrassarion of Caracalla 198-217 AD., Plotinopolis, Thrace</b> - laureate head right / <b>Herakles</b> standing left, leaning on raised right leg set on rocks and holding club <b>(7.15 grams, 24 mm)</b> Plotinopolis mint 198-217 AD., Varbanov - Mouchmov - SNG Copenhagen - BMC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]595820[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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