Lot 16
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Aureus, 7.52g., Rome, 211 A.D., P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, bearded head right, rev. LIB AVGG VI ET V, Caracalla and Geta seated left on platform, in front, Liberalitas, at foot of platform, citizen (RIC 87, pl.14,9, text in error; BMC 368, 64; C.70; Hill 1269), minor marks at 12 and 6 o'clock, about extremely fine, very rare
Aureus, 7.52g., Rome, 211 A.D., P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, bearded head right, rev. LIB AVGG VI ET V, Caracalla and Geta seated left on platform, in front, Liberalitas, at foot of platform, citizen (RIC 87, pl.14,9, text in error; BMC 368, 64; C.70; Hill 1269), minor marks at 12 and 6 o'clock, about extremely fine, very rare

Details
Aureus, 7.52g., Rome, 211 A.D., P SEPT GETA PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate, bearded head right, rev. LIB AVGG VI ET V, Caracalla and Geta seated left on platform, in front, Liberalitas, at foot of platform, citizen (RIC 87, pl.14,9, text in error; BMC 368, 64; C.70; Hill 1269), minor marks at 12 and 6 o'clock, about extremely fine, very rare
Provenance
F Sternberg auction XIX, 18-19 November 1987, lot 729

Lot Essay

The harmony between the two brothers depicted here was soon to be rudely shattered. Caracalla, the darling of his over-fond parents, murdered his younger brother Geta, in the very arms, it is said, of their mother.