Æ35 - Caracalla ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙΑϹ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΗϹ

Caesarea Germanica, a small city in Bithynia on the Sangarius River, was one of dozens of provincial mints that seized on imperial portraiture as a tool of local political alignment — striking bronze for purely regional circulation while Rome handled silver and gold. Under Caracalla, provincial issues from Bithynia multiplied sharply, partly because his co-rule with Geta created competing loyalties that civic mints navigated carefully through portrait choice and titulature.

The reference V.2#69633 places this within Varbanov's corpus, where Caesarea Germanica's Caracalla bronzes are notably sparse in documented die studies.