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Æ35 - Septimius Severus ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ΓΕΤΑϹ ϹΕΟ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΙΑ ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (193-211) |
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Nicaea was among the most prolific civic minting authorities in Bithynia, and issues naming both Antoninus (Caracalla) and Geta alongside Septimius Severus belong to the period after 198 AD, when Caracalla was elevated to co-Augustus and the dynasty's carefully managed succession imagery became a fixture of provincial bronze production. The epithet ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΙΑ — brotherly love — applied to Geta and Caracalla is one of the more bitter ironies in Roman numismatic history. Caracalla had Geta murdered in 211, likely in their mother Julia Domna's arms, and ordered a damnatio memoriae that erased Geta's name from inscriptions across the empire.