RIC IV Septimius Severus 25
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Septimius Severus 25. Denomination: Aureus. Authority: Septimius Severus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Gold
- Denomination
- Aureus
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse
- Head of Septimius Severus, laureate, right
- Reverse
- Hercules, naked, on left, standing right, holding club set on ground in right hand and lion-skin over left arm, and Bacchus, wreathed, naked, on right, standing left, emptying oenochoe in right hand over panther, seated left, head right with open mouth, and holding garlanded thyrsus in left hand
- Obverse legend
- L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP II
- Reverse legend
- DIS AVSPICIB TR P II COS II P P
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.ss.25
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