Geta, AE14 of Nicaea, Bithynia. (Ancient imitation) 198-212 AD.

A CEPT-GETA KAICm laureate bust left. 
NIKAIEWN, Nike walking left, holding wreath and palm.

Ancient imitation of RecGen 515.

Contributed by Ginger Hipszky, August 2011.

The reasons for classifying this as an ancient imitation
are:
- The A instead of an L at the start of the legend. Geta
used the A (as part of AVT) only when he was Augustus,
not when he was Caesar (KAIC).
- the peculiar way in which the neck and upper shoulder 
area was made, rather like he is wearing a scarf !
- the retrograde C at the end of the legend 
- the errors in the letters C which were erroneously 
made to resemble Epsilons.
- Geta's left-facing bust was only used in Nikaea during
his time as Augustus.
- the different sizes of the letters on the reverse - 
compare the small I to the huge final N.
- A Nike reverse for Geta is listed in RecGen as no. 
515 but with laureate, draped bust right and Nike 
walking right, so it could be that the original images 
were pressed into clay to make the dies for the copies, 
and the legends added afterwards, but, perhaps being 
illiterate, not being sure about the L or Epsilons, 
otherwise they would have been able to read and 
understand what the legends should have been.