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A silver denarius of the empress Julia Domna with a Venus reverse and a die clash Coin Type: Silver denarius of Julia Domna, 194-218 CE
Mint and Date: "Emesa", 194 CE.
Size and Weight: 16mm x 18mm, 2.44g
Obverse: IVLIA DO-MNA AVG
Draped bust right.
Reverse: VENERI VICTR
Venus naked to the hips, with back turned, standing head right, holding an apple up in her right hand, and a palm branch over her left shoulder in her left hand. She rests her left elbow on a column over which a fold of drapery falls.
Ref: RCV (2002) —; RIC IV —; BMCRE V p.105, 424.
Provenance: cassianus (eBay), October 2003.
BW Ref: 001 026 011
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