RPC — Type: 74618


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Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/74618 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	V.3
Number	— (unassigned; ID 74618)
Province	Lycia-Pamphylia
Region	Pisidia
City	Antioch
Reign	Septimius Severus
Person (obv.)	Caracalla (Caesar)
Obverse inscription	M AVRELIO ANTONI
Edition	M(arco) Aurelio Antoni(o)
Translation	to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design	bare-headed and draped bust of Caracalla (?), right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	ANTIOCHAE
Edition	Antiochae
Translation	of Antioch
Reverse design	eagle facing, head right, with outstretched wings
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	17 mm
Average weight	3.15 g
Axis	6
Specimens	3 (0 in the core collections)
Note	A very puzzling type. It appears to be a coin for Caracalla as Caesar, but no such coins are known for Antioch. The style is very crude, even by the standards of the 'negligé' style of the earliest Severan issues, of c. 202. The reverse legend does not make sense unless we suppose a missing C, as in CAE. The right-facing head of the eagle is otherwise unknown in the Severan period, though it appears later.

Number	Number	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
—	— ✸	Berk Buy or Bid Sale 192, 9 Oct. 2014, lot 327	18	2.94		"Krzyzanowska knew no coins of Caracalla as Caesar at Antioch in Pisidia, nor are there any such in CoinArchives Pro, CNG Research, or Berk photofile. The attribution to Caracalla not Marcus Aurelius as Caesar seems fairly certain, because of the merely wavy hair locks and the obverse legend: the known coins of Marcus Caesar at Antioch, Krzyzanowska pp. 139-140 and pl. IV, show the usual round hair locks on his head and have a quite different obverse legend, CAESAR AVRELIVS.An unpublished issue of Caracalla from the Pisidia mint in Antioch."	Show
—	—	CGT coll. = Naville 17, 20 Sept. 2015, lot 315	17	3.35	6		Show
—	—	Savoca 15 Blue, 19 Jan. 2019, lot 1237	17	3.15			Show