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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Septimius Severus| > RP48227
Septimius Severus, 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D., Kallatis, Moesia Inferior
|Septimius| |Severus|, |Septimius| |Severus,| |9| |April| |193| |-| |4| |February| |211| |A.D.,| |Kallatis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Wandering the world in a panther-drawn chariot, Dionysus rode ahead of the maenads and satyrs, who sang loudly and danced, flushed with wine. They were profusely garlanded with ivy and held the thyrsus, a staff topped with a pine-cone, a symbol of the immortality of his believers. Everywhere he went he taught men how to cultivate vines, and the mysteries of his cult. Whoever stood in his way and refused to revere him was punished with madness.
RP48227. Bronze pentassarion, AMNG I/I 304, Varbanov I 278, VF, Kallatis (Mangalia, Romania) mint, weight 12.466g, maximum diameter 27.6mm, die axis 180o, obverse AVT K Λ CEΠT CEVHPOC ΠEPT, laureate head right; reverse KAΛΛATIANΩN, Dionysos riding on panther right, thyrsos over right shoulder, Ε (mark of value) in left field; rare; SOLD











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