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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Tetrarchy| > |Severus II| > RT80425
Severus II, 25 July 306 - Summer 307 A.D.
|Severus| |II|, |Severus| |II,| |25| |July| |306| |-| |Summer| |307| |A.D.|, "As personification, as goddess or as symbol, the name Roma stretches from classical Greece to Mussolini's Fascist propaganda...Roma has been seen as a goddess, a whore, a near-saint, and as the symbol of civilization itself. She remains the oldest continuous political-religious symbol in Western civilization." -- Ronald Mellor, Introduction, The goddess Roma.
RT80425. Billon follis, RIC VI Siscia 184a, Choice VF, Siscia (Sisak, Croatia) mint, weight 8.959g, maximum diameter 27.1mm, die axis 180o, as caesar, May 305 - 306 A.D.; obverse FL VAL SEVERVS NOB C, laureate head right; reverse PERPETVITAS AVGG, Roma, helmeted, seated left on shield, in right Victory on globe, in left spear, VI right, SISΓ in exergue; nice green patina, good centering; very rare reverse type; SOLD










OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

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