CARACALLA AE LIMES DENARIUS_____Roman Empire_____LIBERTAS HOLDING PILEUS

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL ROMAN IMPERIAL AE LIMES DENARIUS OF CARACALLA FROM 206 - 210 AD.
Limes denarii are thought to be coins minted either officially or pseudo-officially on the fringes of the empire. Perhaps they were used to pay soldiers on the extreme frontiers of the Roman territories or maybe to bolster the economy of regions far from the normal means of monetary distribution.
Termed Limes (Lim-ace) or coins of the borders, these tend to be coins of necessity. They may also be officially sanctioned issues for use in regions where political unrest made it hazardous to ship large amounts of silver. These low value issues could have served troops on the front and been redeemable for good coinage when they returned to the stable regions.
These AE denarii are more or less faithful copies of silver prototypes, and we know that they were both struck and cast in various places. An interesting part of Roman History.
THE SIZE IS 19.4 MM AND 1.70 GRAMS.
RIC 161
OBVERSE – ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate bust right
REVERSE – LIBERTAS AVG, Libertas standing left holding pileus and sceptre
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.
LEGACY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
During the later republic and most of the empire, Rome was the dominant power in the entire Mediterranean basin, most of western Europe, and large areas of northern Africa. The Romans possessed a powerful army and were gifted in the applied arts of law, government, city planning, and statecraft, but they also acknowledged and adopted contributions of other ancient peoples—most notably, those of the Greeks, much of whose culture was thereby preserved.
The Roman Empire was distinguished not only for its outstanding army—the foundation upon which the whole empire rested—but also for its accomplishments in intellectual endeavours. Roman law, for example, was a considered and complex body of precedents.
Rome’s roads were without match in the ancient world, designed for comparatively fast transportation and adapted to a wide variety of functions: commerce, agriculture, mail delivery, pedestrian traffic, and military movements. Roman city planners achieved unprecedented standards of hygiene with their plumbing, sewage disposal, dams, and aqueducts. Roman architecture, though often imitative of Greek styles, was boldly planned and lavishly executed. Triumphal arches commemorated important state occasions, and the famous Roman baths were built to stir the senses as well as to cleanse the body.
Finally, Latin, the language of the Romans, became the medium for a significant body of original works in Western civilization. Cicero’s speeches, the histories of Livy and Tacitus, Terence’s drama, and above all the poetry of Virgil are all part of the legacy of the Roman Empire
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