RIC IV Pertinax 19
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Pertinax 19. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Pertinax. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Pertinax
Design
- Obverse
- Head of Pertinax, laureate, right
- Reverse
- Pertinax, togate, seated left on curule chair set on platform, extending right hand and holding roll in left hand at side; behind him, officer holding staff in left hand; on steps of platform, citizen, togate, standing right, holding out fold of toga; in background, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding abacus in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand
- Obverse legend
- IMP CAES P HELV PERTINAX AVG
- Reverse legend
- LIB AVG TR P COS II S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.pert.19
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