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Kallatis AE18 Moushmov 287 of Julia Domna

Julia Domna AE18 of Kallatis, Moesia Inferior. IOULIA DOMNA CEBACTH, draped bust right / KALLATIANWN, Cybele riding lion right. SNG Cop 184.

Lot No.1963. gF with some remaining encrustation.

$ 75.

Julia Domna was from a prominent Syrian family and at an early age had a soothsayer proclaim that she would marry an emperor. Septimius took this prediction seriously and married her. She was mother of Geta and Caracalla and served well in the role of Empress from 193 to 217 AD, when is said to have starved herself to death after Macrinus assumed the throne.