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ID number: BIRBI-R1315 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Septimius Severus; Rome Denomination: Denarius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 197-200 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 3.37 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 3924. A. H. Baldwin, 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Head of Septimius Severus, wearing laurel wreath and pronged-beard, facing r. Reverse: Aequitas, draped and standing facing l., holding scales in r. and cornucopiae in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: L SEPT Sev ^vC IMD XI PΛRT MΛX (Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus, Imperator for the Eleventh Time, The Greatest Victor over the Parthians). Reverse: COS II P P (Consul for the Second Time, Father of the Fatherland).
Bibliography: RIC IV 125A
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