Caracalla

Coin

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Brenny_Kay

Name/Title

Caracalla

Entry/Object ID

011

Description

Caracalla was named co-emperor by Septimius Severus with his brother Geta. He had Geta killed by the praetorian guard. Nice bloke

Mintage

Mint

Rome

Date made

212 CE

Coin Details

Obverse

Description

Head of Caracalla, laureate, right

Transcription

ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT

Translation

Antoninus Pius, Augustus, Britannicus (Antoninus Pius Augustus, Conquer of the Britons)

Reverse

Description

Salus, draped, seated left, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled round altar and holdind cornucopiae in left arm

Transcription

P M TR P XV COS III P P

Translation

Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate Quinta Decima, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. (High priest, holder of tribunician power for the 15th time, consul for the third time, father of the nation)

Currency

Denarius

Grading

Grade

3

Grader

Brenny Kay

Dimensions

Diameter

18.68 mm

Weight

3.17 g

Composition

Material

Silver

Web Links and URLs

http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.crl.196