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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2339528, member: 19463&quot;]While I do recommend Warren&#039;s page on the subject, I also recommend Bill Welch&#039;s page to which Warren links at the bottom of his page.&nbsp; I do not recommend my page but you can read it anyway.&nbsp; My page has few answers so it makes fewer mistakes.&nbsp; I did not state the date for Geta&#039;s death (some say December; some February 212). I did not take sides on why the early coins of Geta were Lucius and later ones Publius.&nbsp; Caracalla was Lucius before his name was changed to Marcus in Septimius&#039; period of reverse adoption into the family of Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; I doubt calling his brother by his name would have set well with Caracalla.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/geta.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/geta.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/geta.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta</a></p><p>The vCoins blurb seems to have been copied from Wikipedia but bolloxed the dates from the correct ones given in Wikipedia.&nbsp; There is nothing wrong with copying from Wikipedia where a Creative Common Licence prevails.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License</a></p><p>In the old days we did not encourage cut and paste level copying but it seems to be the way of the world in 2016. Many here do it on every coin they attribute.&nbsp; The idea behind Wikipedia and free information exchange on the Internet (notice that Warren, Bill and I all have web pages that do not charge an entrance fee just as do a hundred other coin websites).&nbsp; Part of the obligation of free information exchange is to apply care when copying so you get it right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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