ROMAN EMPIRE PROVINCIAL, Thracia, Augusta Traiana, Septimius Severus, Varbanov (engl.) 1006 (plate coin)

Septimius Severus, AD 193-211
AE 30, 14.92g, 30.24mm, 30°
obv. AVT L CEPTI - CEVHROC PE
bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. AVGOVCTH - C TRAIANHC
Snake erecting from small pedestal in four elaborate coils r., head decorated with wreath.
ref. Varbanov (engl.) 1006 (this coin, corrected!); Schonert-Geiss 136
Rare, VF, nice green patina

Interesting, because the snake here is not nimbate but wreathed!