SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS BRONZE MEDALLIC ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA – DAMNATIO MEMORIAE OF GETA – NGC AU ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 21493)

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21493. ROMAN EMPIRE. SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS WITH GETA, AD 193–211. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF STRATONICAEA, CARIA.
Bronze Denomination, 28.92 g, 36 mm. Issue of Prytanis Philon, ca. AD 198-209.
Obv. ΑΥ Κ Λ ϹΕ ϹΕΥΗΡΟϹ ΠΕ ΑΥ Κ Π ϹΕΠ ΓΕΤΑϹ Ϲ Κ, facing laureate, draped and cuirassed busts of Septimius Severus and Geta (chiseled out of die), rectangular countermark inscribed ΘEOY and circular countermark with helmeted head of Roma applied in field. Rev. ΕΠ ΠΡΥ ΕΠΙΤΥΝΧΑΝΟΝΤΟϹ Γ ΦΙΛΩΝΟϹ ϹΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΩΝ, Zeus Panamaros, holding scepter, riding horse right, lit altar in front.
RPC V.2 Online 73901 unassigned, but this coin listed and illustrated among the 16 specimens cited; SNG von Aulock 8162. For countermarks see Howgego 188 and 536.
Ex W. Toliver Besson Collection = CNG 7/22/2026, lot 118 = CNG 129, 5/13/2025, lot 400.
NGC AU, Strike 5/2, Surface 5/2, “countermarks,” “Damnatio Memoriae,” a high-grade specimen where clear traces of Geta’s face remain while the rest of his image has been chiseled out of the die.