Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, 14. Septimius Severus, HrHJ (2018) 8.14.03.06 #1 (plate coin)

Septimius Severus, AD 197-211
AE 19, 4.01g, 18.96mm, 210°
obv. AV KAI CE - CEVHROC
Head, laureate, r.
rev. NIKOPOLITWN - PROC ICTR
Hera, in long garment, stg. frontal, head l., holding patera in extended r. hand and resting with l. hand on long sceptre.
ref.: a) obv. AMNG I/1, 1351
rev. AMNG I/1, 1351 (depiction)
legend not in AMNG
b) not in Varbanov (engl.)
c) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2018) No. 8.14.3.6 (plate coin)
about VF, blackgreen patina

Pick writes: "Because it is sometimes difficult to differentiate scepter and torch it is possible that some specimens of no.1351 belong to no.1352 and vice versa." Here it is obviously a sceptre.

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