Caracalla mit Geta-Revers
Verfasst: So 01.06.08 13:54
...das folgende - wenngleich auch nicht besonders schöne Münzlein - konnte ich kürzlich erstehen. Trotzdem ist die Münze sehr interessant, da sie eine Kombination aus CARACALLA- avers und GETA-revers darstellt.
Hierzu der englisch-sprachige Kommentar von Joseph Sermarini und Curtis Clay:
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Geta Reverse Mule
26909. Silver denarius, second known, the other example in a Giessner Münzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH, München sale 101, March 2000 (same dies); cf. Geta RSC 162c, aF, 1.664g, 17.8mm, 180o, Rome mint, ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head of Caracalla right; reverse PRINC IVVENT COS, Geta on horseback as Prince of the Youth, leading two other horsemen in an equestrian exercise or ceremony; mule combining an obverse of Caracall with a rare reverse of Geta; `Cohen misdescribes the horsemen in this type as being Septimius, Caracalla, and Geta. Actually it is Geta leading two other horsemen in an equestrian display, as Eckhlel already correctly stated...
Geta was consul for the first time with Caracalla in 205, and the point of this type is that even the youngest member of the imperial family, Geta, who was still only Caesar and Prince of the Youth, had now become consul, PRINC IVVENT COS. A rare denarius of Caracalla commemorates the same event with a type of Caracalla and Geta seated on curule chairs on a platform, Septimius standing behind and between them, legend IMP ET CAESAR AVG FILI COS, `The Emperor and the Caesar, sons of the Augustus, as consuls,` BMCRE, pl. 34.1.
One might be inclined to assign the PRINC IVVENT COS type to the year of the consulship, 205 itself, but actually it appears to have been struck mainly in 206, and perhaps even early in 207. The muled denarius of Caracalla with the type shows his head only on the obverse, so cannot have been struck before that bust type superseded the earlier draped bust in the course of 206. I have not yet found a denarius of Geta himself struck from the same reverse die as the Caracalla mule.` -- Curtis Clay
Hierzu der englisch-sprachige Kommentar von Joseph Sermarini und Curtis Clay:
Caracalla, 28 January 198 - 8 April 217 A.D., Geta Reverse Mule
26909. Silver denarius, second known, the other example in a Giessner Münzhandlung Dieter Gorny GmbH, München sale 101, March 2000 (same dies); cf. Geta RSC 162c, aF, 1.664g, 17.8mm, 180o, Rome mint, ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate head of Caracalla right; reverse PRINC IVVENT COS, Geta on horseback as Prince of the Youth, leading two other horsemen in an equestrian exercise or ceremony; mule combining an obverse of Caracall with a rare reverse of Geta; `Cohen misdescribes the horsemen in this type as being Septimius, Caracalla, and Geta. Actually it is Geta leading two other horsemen in an equestrian display, as Eckhlel already correctly stated...
Geta was consul for the first time with Caracalla in 205, and the point of this type is that even the youngest member of the imperial family, Geta, who was still only Caesar and Prince of the Youth, had now become consul, PRINC IVVENT COS. A rare denarius of Caracalla commemorates the same event with a type of Caracalla and Geta seated on curule chairs on a platform, Septimius standing behind and between them, legend IMP ET CAESAR AVG FILI COS, `The Emperor and the Caesar, sons of the Augustus, as consuls,` BMCRE, pl. 34.1.
One might be inclined to assign the PRINC IVVENT COS type to the year of the consulship, 205 itself, but actually it appears to have been struck mainly in 206, and perhaps even early in 207. The muled denarius of Caracalla with the type shows his head only on the obverse, so cannot have been struck before that bust type superseded the earlier draped bust in the course of 206. I have not yet found a denarius of Geta himself struck from the same reverse die as the Caracalla mule.` -- Curtis Clay