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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Florianus| > RA73897
Florianus, June or July - August or September 276 A.D.
|Florianus|, |Florianus,| |June| |or| |July| |-| |August| |or| |September| |276| |A.D.|, Providentia is the personification of the ability to foresee and to make provision for the future. This ability was considered essential for the emperor and providentia was among the embodiments of virtues that were part of the imperial cult. Cicero said that providentia, memoria (memory) and intellegentia (understanding) are the three main components of prudentia, the knowledge what is good or bad or neither.
RA73897. Bronze antoninianus, MER-RIC 4511 (6 spec.), BnF XII - (not in the collection but noted p. 408), RIC V-1 -, Hunter IV -, SRCV III -, Venèra II -, VF, well centered and struck, green patina, scratches, 3rd officina, Serdica (Sofia, Bulgaria) mint, weight 3.027g, maximum diameter 22.3mm, die axis 180o, issue 2, Aug 276 A.D.; obverse IMP C M AN FLORIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse PROVIDEN DEOR (the foresight of the gods), Fides Militum on left, standing right, holding two flanking standards, one in each hand; Sol on right, standing left, raising right hand commanding sunrise, globe behind in left, star low between the figures, Γ in exergue; very rare; SOLD











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