RIC IV Septimius Severus 661
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Septimius Severus 661. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Septimius Severus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse
- Head of Septimius Severus, laureate, right
- Reverse
- Hercules, naked, standing left, holding club in right hand and lion skin over left arm, and Bacchus, naked, standing left, holding cup in right hand and thyrsus in left hand; at feet of Bacchus, panther
- Obverse legend
- IMP CAES L SEPT SEV PERT AVG
- Reverse legend
- DIS AVSPICIB TR P II COS II P P S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.ss.661
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