RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 66377)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 66377)
Province Cappadocia
Region Cappadocia
City Caesarea
Reign Septimius Severus
Person (obv.) Geta (Caesar)
Issue Severus year 12
Dating AD 204
Obverse inscription ΠΟΠΛ ϹΕΠΤΙ ΓΑΙΤΑϹ ΚΕϹ
Edition Πόπλ(ιος) Σεπτί(μιος) Γέτας Καῖ(σαρ)
Translation Publius Septimius Geta Caesar
Obverse design draped and bare-headed bust of Geta, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙΑ ΕΤ ΙΒ
Edition μητρόπο(λις) Καισάρεια ἔτ(ους) ιβʹ
Translation Metropolis Caesarea, of year 12
Reverse design figure seated left, on rocks, holding branch and globe
Metal silver
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 2.59 g
Axis 12
Reference S —; Ganschow 620corr.
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Anomalous in several ways, and regarded by Ganschow, p. 162, as probably irregular and plated. But the existence of the second specimen, from the same obv. die, with a Mount Argaeus reverse (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/66378) makes it seems more likely to be authentic, if still odd. The rev. die seems to be the same as used on a coin of Caracalla https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/314884.
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Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     ✸ Henseler 964.