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Coin Type: Silver denarius of Septimius Severus, 193 CE - 211 CE Mint and Date: Rome, 209 CE. Size and Weight: 18mm, 3.22g Obverse: SEVERVS PIVS AVG Laureate head right. Reverse: P M TR P XVII COS III PP Jupiter, naked but for cloak over choulders, standing facing, head left, holding thunderbolt in extended right hand and vertical sceptre in left; to left and right, two small figures, standing facing, looking inwards, heads right and left respectively; each extending right hand towards Jupiter. Ref: RCV (2002) 6345; RIC IV 226; BMCRE V p.356, 1 BW Ref: 023 038 029 |
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