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A silver denarius of the emperor Septimius Severus with a reverse showing Salus feeding a snake Coin Type: Silver denarius of Septimius Severus, 193 CE - 211 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 197-198 CE.
Size and Weight: 15mm x 16mm, 4.1g
Obverse: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP X
Laureate head right.
Reverse: SALVTI AVGG
Salus seated left, holding out a patera in right hand to a snake arising from an altar, left elbow resting back on the arm of the chair, short sceptre in left hand resting over her left shoulder.
Ref: RCV (2002) —; RIC IV 119a; BMCRE V p.61, 256.
Provenance: bigpuss02 (eBay), May 2007.
BW Ref: 055 053 108
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