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Bronze - Æ 16-17 mm - 3,7 grams - Die axis 12:00 - Struck Ad 202/203.
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[ΦOV Π[ΛAVTIΛΛA CЄ] (Fu Plautilla Se (Sebasta - Augusta)).
Empress in Tunica, hair in bun, facing right.
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[ANAZAPBЄΩ NЄ AKC] (Anazarbeon Neokoron 221 (SE) - Anazabus Once Templekeeper AD 202). Eagle, wings slightly outstretched, head turned left. Date is Pompeian-Silician year 221.
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Publia Fulvia Plautilla (c. AD 185 - early 212) was of the Roman Elite, briefly Roman Empress and the only wife to Roman Emperor Caracalla. Caracalla was her paternal second cousin. Severus and Plautianus arranged for Plautilla and Caracalla to be married in April 202. It was a forced marriage and were married on a lavish scale. She was despised by Caracalla.
On January 22, 205 Gaius Fulvius Plautianus was executed for treachery and his family properties were confiscated. Plautilla and her daughter were exiled by Caracalla to Sicily and then to Lipari where they were treated very harshly. Both were eventually strangled on Caracalla's orders after the death of Septimius Severus on February 4, 211. Coins that have survived of her, are mainly from the reign of her father-in-law.
AKC means 1+20+200, Year 221 (SE) being AD 202/3.
Provincially minted in Anazarbus, Cilicia.
Obv. : Bad - Rev. : Better.
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