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A bronze coin of the emperor Caracalla from Hadrianopolis with a reverse showing Demeter with snakes. Coin Type: Bronze AE27 of Caracalla, Caesar Dec 195 - 28 Jan 198 CE, Augustus 28 Jan 198 - 8 Apr 217 CE.
Mint and Date: Hadrianopolis in Thrace, 198-217 CE
Size and Weight: 26mm x 27mm, 13.08g
Obverse: ANTΩNEINOC AVT K M AVP CEV
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, with shield and spear.
Reverse: AΔPIANO-ΠOΛEITΩN
Demeter, draped and veiled, standing left holding a patera over a cista mystica with a serpent emerging, and resting with her left hand on a long, lighted torch around which a serpent is entwined.
Provenance: buhala (eBay), January 2010.
Ref: Varbanov II (English) —; Jurukova, Hadrianopolis, no. 286, V159-R277, pl. XXVIII, same dies.
BW Ref: 060 045 152
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