RIC III Marcus Aurelius 53
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC III Marcus Aurelius 53. Denomination: Aureus. Authority: Marcus Aurelius. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Gold
- Denomination
- Aureus
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Marcus Aurelius
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Marcus Aurelius, bare-headed, draped, right
- Reverse
- Salus, draped, standing left, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled round altar and holding transverse sceptre in left
- Obverse legend
- M ANTONINVS AVG
- Reverse legend
- SALVTI AVGVSTOR TR P XVI COS III
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.3.m_aur.53
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