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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7673845, member: 89514"]@BlakeDavis</p><p><br /></p><p>Blake,</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours seems to be the eighth spec. known to me, all coming from one obv. and three rev. dies:</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. 1, BMC 747A, Berlin, Vatican, your coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. 2, Paris, Sofia, Lanz 60, 1992, lot 654</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. 3, Triton 3, 1999, part lot 1715, not illustrated, ex Vermeule coll. and Fitzwilliam Sale</p><p><br /></p><p>Date of the coin must be 200 or very early 201, since the same rev. type also occurs on dated denarii of those years, with legend PONTIF TR P III (common) or PONTIF TR P IIII (rare).</p><p><br /></p><p>Type has often been described as youthful nude Caracalla assimilated to Sol, but my guess is that it's Caracalla assimilated to Alexander the Great, in a pose made famous by statues of that king. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please note the correct dates for the rare middle-period Severan sestertii, not 199/200 AD to 207/208 AD as you write, but rather early 198 to late 209. Don't overlook the sestertii of 198-9 and 208-9, which are just as rare as the others!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am unaware of the Minerva Victrix sestertius of young Caracalla as Augustus that you mention as having appeared on German eBay a few years ago. Would you be able to send me a picture, or post it here? Or do you perhaps mean the PONTIFEX TR P II sestertius showing Caracalla standing left with captive seated at feet, which was sold by Lanz on eBay in Dec. 2017?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7673845, member: 89514"]@BlakeDavis Blake, Yours seems to be the eighth spec. known to me, all coming from one obv. and three rev. dies: Rev. 1, BMC 747A, Berlin, Vatican, your coin Rev. 2, Paris, Sofia, Lanz 60, 1992, lot 654 Rev. 3, Triton 3, 1999, part lot 1715, not illustrated, ex Vermeule coll. and Fitzwilliam Sale Date of the coin must be 200 or very early 201, since the same rev. type also occurs on dated denarii of those years, with legend PONTIF TR P III (common) or PONTIF TR P IIII (rare). Type has often been described as youthful nude Caracalla assimilated to Sol, but my guess is that it's Caracalla assimilated to Alexander the Great, in a pose made famous by statues of that king. Please note the correct dates for the rare middle-period Severan sestertii, not 199/200 AD to 207/208 AD as you write, but rather early 198 to late 209. Don't overlook the sestertii of 198-9 and 208-9, which are just as rare as the others! I am unaware of the Minerva Victrix sestertius of young Caracalla as Augustus that you mention as having appeared on German eBay a few years ago. Would you be able to send me a picture, or post it here? Or do you perhaps mean the PONTIFEX TR P II sestertius showing Caracalla standing left with captive seated at feet, which was sold by Lanz on eBay in Dec. 2017?[/QUOTE]
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