CARACALLA - PARIUM MYSIA AE21_____Roman Provincial_____FLYING CAPRICORN & GLOBE

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL ROMAN PROVINCIAL BRONZE COIN OF CARACALLA MINTED IN PARIUM MYSIA FROM 198 - 217 AD .
THE SIZE IS 21.2 MM AND 4.01 GRAMS.
SNG France 1494
OBVERSE – ANTONINVS PIVS AV, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla right, seen from behind
REVERSE – C G I H P, capricorn right, globe between hooves, cornucopia on back
CARACALLA
Born in Lugdunum (Lyons), the Roman emperor known as Caracalla (April 4, 188 - April 8, 217), was probably originally named Lucius Septimius Bassianus, but then was called Marcus Aurelius Antoninus from the age of seven. Caracalla's father Septimius Severus made Caracalla Caesar in 196 and Augustus in 198.
Caracalla followed in the ancient Roman tradition of fratricide (begun by Romulus when he killed Remus) by killing his brother Geta in 212 shortly after they both succeeded Septimius Severus to the imperial throne in 211. Caracalla staged the assassination of his brother so that his brother died in his mother Julia Domna's arms. He then carried out a blood bath, killing as many as 20,000 supporters of Geta. Caracalla bought the affection of the soldiers, but was himself assassinated by his praetorian prefect Macrinus on April 8, 217.
PARIUM MYSIA
A port of great strategic importance on the Hellespont between Lampsakos and Priapos. The city may have been founded by Parion, son of Jason, chief of the settlers of Erythrai; or by the mythic Parilarians, together with colonists from Erythrai and Miletos.
Parium enjoyed enviable prosperity because of its port; and once the kingdom of Pergamon was established, it came under the control of the Attalid dynasty. It passed to the Romans in 133 B.C. under the testament of Attalos III, and under Augustus must have been a flourishing center as the numerous coins coming from Parium designate the city Colonia Pariana Iulia Augusta. Strabo (Geogr. 13.588) records a colossal altar constructed at Parium by Hermokreon; and we know that prior to 354 B.C. the sculptor Praxiteles executed a statue of Eros there.
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