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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-R1324
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:  209
Metal:  Silver
Diameter (cm):  2.00
Weight (g):  3.39
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 3432. G. de Falco, Naples, 1959.
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Description:  Obverse: Head of Septimius Severus, wearing laurel wreath and pronged-beard, facing r. Reverse: Salus, draped, seated facing l., feeding out of patera in r. snake coiled in lap.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: SEVERVS PIVS AVC (Severus Pious Augustus). Reverse: P M TR P XVII COS III P P (Head of the College of the Priests, Tribune for the Seventeenth Time, Consul for the Third Time, Father of the Fatherland).

Bibliography:  RIC IV 230

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Septimius Severus
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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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