Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R1303 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Didius Julianus; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 193 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 14.81 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 1428. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

|
Description: Obverse: Head of Didius Julianus, wearing a laurel wreath and bearded, facing r. Reverse: Fortuna, draped and standing facing l., holding rudder set on globe in r. and cornucopia in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …nΓ CΔES M DID SEVER IVLIΛN AvC (Imperator Caesar Marcus Didius Severus Julianus Augustus). Reverse: P M.Z^ ɪ C… C (Head of the College of Priests, Tribune, Consul, S C; Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 15.
|