RIC IV Septimius Severus 537
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Septimius Severus 537. 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
- Bust of Julia Domna, hair waved and coiled at back, draped, right
- Reverse
- Venus, draped, seated left, holding apple in extended right hand and long trasverse sceptre in left hand; before her, Cupid, standing right
- Obverse legend
- IVLIA DOMNA AVG
- Reverse legend
- VENVS GENETRIX
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.ss.537
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