CARACALLA AND GETA BRONZE AE37 – RARE PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA SUBJECTED TO DAMNATIO MEMORIAE – VF GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 20209)

$1,450.00

20209. ROMAN EMPIRE. CARACALLA WITH GETA, AD 198–217. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA, CARIA.
Bronze AE Denomination, 22.91 g, 37 mm. Issue of Archon Flavius Leon Lena, ca. AD 205–209.
Obv. ΑΥ ΚΑΙϹ ΑΥΡΗΛΟϹ (sic) ΠΟ ϹΕΠΟϹ (sic) ΑΝΤΟΝΙΝΟϹ ΓΕΤΑϹ, facing laureate, draped and curiassed busts of Caracalla and Gera (chiseled out of die), circular countermark with bust of Caracalla at bottom. Rev. ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ ΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ΛΕΝΑ ϹΤΡΑΤΩΝΙΚΕΩΝ, Zeus Panamaros, holding scepter, riding horse right, lit altar in front.
RPC V.2 Online 73879 (this coin listed and illustrated among the 14 specimens so far recorded); SNG von Aulock 8163 var. (rev. legend arrangement). For c/m see Howgego 84.
About VF, subjected to damnatio memoriae with faint traces of Geta’s portrait that has been chiseled out of the die.