Caracalla, AD 198-217
AE 28, 15.33g
struck under hegemon Caecina Largus (198-210)
obv. [AVT M] AVRHLIOC - ANTWNEINOC
Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. HGE KAIKINA LARGOV OVLPIAC
in ex. PAVTALI / AC
Three nude charites stg. twined; the first stg. half-left, holding in r. hand jar, from 
whitch water flows; the second seen from behind, clothed only below buttocks 
(crescent?), holding hands on shoulder of her sisters; the third stg. half-right, 
holding in lowered left hand jar, from which water flows.
Ruzicka 503, pl. III, 13 (1 ex. in Sarajewo)
very rare, about VF, green patina

Pautalia was a famous bath full of parks with temples and statues. It is well known that especially the die-cutters of Pautalia preferred statues for their coin reverses. So this reverse has probably a group of statues as paradigm.
Contributed by Hans-Joachim Hoeft, December, 2006.