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12.12.2023
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Ancient Roman Coins.Totally new to collecting and really happy with my first coin. A couple of questions if I may Can anyone translate the coins wording? And lastly how do you display your collections I would really like a box with flicked liner with coin shaped inserts but not quite sure the best way to measure this as I’m sure the coins will all be very different in size? |
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Duisburg, 18.12.2023
Dear,I report below the significant elements regarding the figure coin: Denarius1, 215 d. C., mint of Rome, RIC IV/I 255 (pag. 248), BMC V 107var. (pag. 452), Cohen IV 284 (pag. 173), indice di rarità "S"
Summary description: A
search on the web for coins of the figure
typology yielded the following results:
Un saluto cordiale. Giulio De Florio
(2) ANTONINVS PIVS - AVG GERM (ANTONINVS PIVS AVGustus GERManicus - Caracalla, 212-217). I draw from Kovaliov a few notes on this emperor. "As early as 196 A.D., Septimius Severus had proclaimed Caesar, under the name of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, his 8-year-old son Bassianus, who would go down in history as Caracalla because of a hooded cloak in Gallic usage that he used to wear and that had become fashionable in Rome. Two years later he had made him his conregnant with the title Augustus. By the end of the reign he had behaved similarly with his second son, Geta. In 211 Septimius died in Britain during the war with the native tribes, so that Rome ended up ruled by two legal emperors who hated each other to death, each of them supported by a section of the courtiers and the population. In 212 Caracalla, during during a quarrel, killed his brother in the arms of his mother Julia Domna. Caracalla had inherited a harsh character from his father, but in him this severity turned into extreme cruelty. After Geta's death, Caracalla took revenge on his active or sympathetic partisans, and even Papinianus, a famous jurist and paternal adviser, was condemned because he refused to justify fratricide in senatorial circles. Caracalla was little concerned with the affairs of the state, having left its direction to Julia Domna. The basic lines of domestic policy, drawn by Septimius, continued to be developed; soldiers were showered with rewards and all sorts of largesse. Salaries were again increased to the great detriment of finances. It may be that this was due to the famous edict of 212 that granted the right of citizenship to any free inhabitant of the Empire, provided he was enrolled in any community (constitutio Antoniniana). This may have been the reason for the famous 212 edict that granted the right of citizenship to any free inhabitant of the Empire, provided he was enrolled in any community (constitutio Antoniniana). It is assumed that in this way the Roman government hoped to unify the tax system and increase revenue. However, whatever the direct causes that brought about the 212 edict, the fact remains that, historically, it represents the culmination of the traditional policy of the Roman Empire, from Caesar onward, directed at broadening the social base of the Roman state. Caracalla's foreign policy partly set out to consolidate the borders and in this respect did not break with ancient traditions, and partly sought to give the soldiers something to live on. Twice Caracalla fought on the Danube, but without notable results; later he moved against the Parthians, dreaming of the exploits of Alexander the Macedonian. While in the East, he took the opportunity to take revenge on the Alexandrians who had already been partisans of Geta. In 215 Alexandria was abandoned to sacking by soldiers. In April 217 a plot by the praetorian prefect Marcus Opellius Macrinus, a Mauritanian by birth, led to the assassination of Caracalla and the rise of Macrinus himself. The army and the Senate recognized him, and Julia Domna allowed herself to starve to death." (3) P M TR P XVIII - COS IIII P P (Pontifex M aximusTRibunicia Potestate XVIII COnSul IIII Pater Patriae). The indication of tribunician power (TRP XVIII) allows the coin to be dated to exactly 215. (4) The type of the obverse, Apollo holding a lustral branch and a scepter, could allude to a purification as a result of a plague. |
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