RIC IV Septimius Severus 859
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Septimius Severus 859. 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
- Bust of Julia Domna, hair waved and coiled at back, draped, right
- Reverse
- Cybele, towered, draped, seated left on throne, holding branch in extended right hand and resting left arm on drum set on left knee; to either side of throne, lion
- Obverse legend
- IVLIA AVGVSTA
- Reverse legend
- MATER DEVM S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.ss.859
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