Ave!
Plautilla, Denarius, Concordia reverse, LOOK!
AR; 20mm/2.8gm Rome Mint ca. 202-205 AD
Con/ Flan break, otherwise, about virtually As Struck
Obv/ PLAVTILLAE AVGVSTAE; draped but right, hair coiled in vertical ridges and fasted in a bun in the back
Rev/ CONCORDIAE; Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopia
Ref/ RIC Vol IVa, 360
Seller's Note/ Despite the flan break, this coin exhibits a truly magnificent, winsome and evocative portrait of the beautiful young, but doomed, empress.
Plautilla married Caracalla in A. D. 202. After the fall of her father, the powerful praetorian prefect, Plautianus, she was banished to the Lipari Islands where she was murdered by the orders of Caracalla in 212.