GETA sacrificing over altar 205AD Authentic Silver Ancient Roman Coin i46543

Item: i46543

Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Geta
– Roman Caesar: 198-209 A.D. –
Roman Emperor
: 209-211 A.D. –
Silver Denarius 20mm (3.54 grams) Rome mint: 205 A.D.
Reference: RIC 38b, S 7207
GETACAESPONTCOS – Bare-headed, draped bust right.
VOTAPVBLICA – Geta standing left, sacrificing over altar.

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Publius Septimius Geta (March

7, 189
–December

26, 211
),

was a Roman Emperor

co-ruling with his father

Septimius Severus

and his older brother

Caracalla

from 209 to his death.

Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife

Julia

Domna
. Geta was born in

Rome, at a time

when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of emperor

Commodus
.

Geta was always in a place secondary to his older brother Lucius, the heir

known as Caracalla. Perhaps due to this, the relations between the two were

difficult from their early years. Conflicts were constant and often required the

mediation of their mother. To appease his youngest son, Septimius Severus gave

Geta the title of Augustus in 209. During the campaign against the

Britons of the early 3rd century, the imperial propaganda publicized a happy

family that shared the responsibilities of rule. Caracalla was his father’s

second in command, Julia Domna the trusted counsellor and Geta had

administrative and bureaucratic duties. Truth was that the rivalry and antipathy

between the brothers was far from being improved. 

Joint Emperor

When Septimius Severus died in

Eboracum in the

beginning of 211, Caracalla and Geta were proclaimed joint emperors and returned

to Rome.

Regardless, the shared throne was not a success: the brothers argued about

every decision, from law to political appointments. Later sources speculate

about the desire of the two of splitting the empire in two halves. By the end of

the year, the situation was unbearable. Caracalla tried to murder Geta during

the festival of

Saturnalia

without success. Later in December he arranged a meeting with his brother in his

mother’s apartments, and had him murdered in her arms by

centurions
.

Following Geta’s assassination, Caracalla

damned his memoryy

and ordered his name to be removed from all inscriptions.

The now sole emperor also took the opportunity to get rid of his political

enemies, on the grounds of conspiracy with the deceased.

Cassius

Dio
 

stated that around 20,000 persons of both sexes were killed and/or proscribed

during this time.