SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS AND GETA BRONZE AE 32 – DAMNATIO MEMORIAE ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA IN CARIA – NGC VF ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 21916)

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21916. ROMAN EMPIRE. SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS WITH GETA, AD 198–209. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA, CARIA.
AE, 23.97 g, 32 mm. Issue of Philon, subjected to DAMNATIO MEMORIAE, with Geta’s portrait removed.
Obv. Facing laureate, draped and curiassed busts of Septimius Severus and Geta (chiseled out of die), circular countermark with bust of Caracalla. Rev. Hecate standing facing, head left, wearing calathos, holding patera and torch; at feet left, lighted altar.
RPC Online (unassigned, 73720), this coin listed, currently 14th specimen listed and illustrated; for countermark see Howgego 84.
NGC VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5, “countermark,” noted “Damnatio Memoriae.”