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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.