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Septimius Severus Denarius RIC IVa 27a
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3.01g, 18.5mm, 0 degrees, Rome mint, 193-194 CE.
Attribution: RIC IVa 27a. Cohen -. BMCRE V 60.
O: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP II, laureate head right.
R: LIBERO PATRI, Bacchus (Liber) standing left, pouring wine from an oenochoe (a type of wine jug) over a panther and clutching a thyrsus.
Note: A thyrsus is a wand of giant fennel covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae (ribbon) and topped with a pine cone or by a bunch of vine-leaves and grapes or ivy-leaves and berries.
1 example in Reka Devnia, Mouchmov P.98.
Ex-Victor's Imperial Coins.
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