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Coin Type: Silvered base metal denarius of Geta, Caesar 198-209 CE, Augustus 209-211 CE Mint and Date: Rome, 208-209 CE. Size and Weight: 19mm x 20mm, 3.4g Obverse: Bust right, draped, head bare, seen from behind. P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES Reverse: Genius or Bonus Eventus, naked, standing front, head left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over garlanded and lit altar left, and holding two corn-ears downwards in left hand. PONTIF COS II Provenance: fichtinski (eBay), May 2007 Ref: RCV (2000) 7187; RIC IV 59a; BMCRE V p274, 584. BW Ref: 016 031 110

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