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A silver antoninianus of the empress Julia Domna with a reverse showing Luna driving a chariot Coin Type: Silver antoninianus of Julia Domna, 193-218 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 211-217 CE
Size and Weight: 23mm, 3.64g
Obverse: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG
Draped bust right wearing a heavy wig with a stephane, a crescent beneath.
Reverse: LVNA LVCIFERA
Luna, draped, crescent on head, a fold of drapery in a circle around head, standing in a biga of horses prancing left, leaning forward, holding the reins with both hands.
Ref: RCV (2002) 7096; RIC IV 379a; BMCRE V p431-2, 8-9.
Provenance: ramonmn6axx (eBay), October 2007.
BW Ref: 040 040 136
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