CARIA, Stratonicaea. Caracalla, with Geta as Caesar. AD 198-217. Æ (34mm, 29.29 g, 7h). Damnatio Memoriae. Iouliades, son of Hierokles, prytanis. [A]NTΩI KA ΠO CЄ [ΓЄTAN], [laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Geta] vis-à-vis laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla; c/ms: helmeted head of Roma within circular incuse, and ΘEOY within rectangular incuse / ЄΠ ΠPY IOY[ΛIAΔOY TOY IЄPO]KΛЄ CTPATONIKЄ/ΩN, Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in right hand and torch in left; at feet left, lighted altar. Cf. SNG Leypold 849 (Geta on left, different magistrate); unpublished for this magistrate. For c/ms: Howgego 188; 536. Red-brown surfaces, light porosity. Near EF. Extremely rare, presently unique. Portrait of Geta erased, Caracalla’s damnatio memoriae of Geta applied after his murder in AD 211.
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